Sachdev Sidhu studied chemistry at Simon Fraser University and obtained his B.Sc. with honors in 1991. He then continued his graduate work at Simon Fraser University where he investigated enzyme function, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1996. Following a postdoctoral research fellowship with James Wells at Genentech, Dr. Sidhu joined the Protein Engineering department as a principal investigator in 1998. In 2008, Dr. Sidhu moved to the University of Toronto, where he is a professor in the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and the Department of Molecular Genetics. In 2010, Dr. Sidhu founded the Toronto Recombinant Antibody Centre to facilitate therapeutic antibody research, and in 2015 he founded the Centre for Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and is a co-inventor on more than 30 patents filed with the US patent office. Dr. Sidhu’s research interests focus on the use of combinatorial biology methods to explore protein structure and function, and his group is currently developing synthetic antibody libraries and other scaffolds as sources of potential therapeutics. In 2015, Dr. Sidhu received the Christian B. Anfinsen Award of the Protein Society for significant technological achievements in protein research.