Yazead obtained a BSc in Pharmacology at Newcastle University. After its completion, he became a research assistant at Newcastle University's Institute of Neuroscience and Institute of Aging working on nootropic compounds to reverse cognitive deficits. From there Yazead went on to King's College London for an MSc in Neuroscience and subsequently worked as a research assistant in the Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Centre as a part of the Pharmaceutical Science Research Division to assess cognitive deficits in a novel animal model for Parkinson’s disease. Under the supervision of Profs Duty, Malcangio, and Chaudhuri at the IoPPN Wolfson Centre for age-related diseases, Yazead completed his Ph.D. investigating the neuronal and inflammatory contribution to pain in Parkinson’s disease. Yazead’s first, and current, post-doctoral research associate position is under Prof Tammaryn Lashley at the Queen Square Brain Bank and Dr. Kerstin Sander at the Centre for Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, funded by the Alzheimer’s Society. Yazead’s project is aimed to investigate the neuroinflammatory role in varying dementias, in particular frontotemporal dementias.