Dr. Mohammad Tabatabai is a tenured Professor and Director of Biostatistics at Meharry Medical College. In addition, he serves as a member of the data science core for the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research. His current research focuses on the development of a new and novel technique for the analysis of real-time PCR (qPCR). This new qPCR technique is capable of detecting the amount of viral RNA for monitoring the administration of Anti-Retroviral Therapy. His methodological research includes Hypertabastic survival models https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertabastic_survival_models, Hyperbolastic functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolastic_functions, and their applications in cancer research such as, kidney carcinoma, cervical, breast, and lung cancers as well as analysis of opioid overdose death rates and drug and alcohol abuse. He has over 130 publications in refereed journals and has been a co-investigator on numerous research grants including the current funded research on the effect of dental care interventions on inflammatory biomarkers in an HIV-infected individual with periodontal disease. His robust statistical techniques such as robust correlations and similarity measures have been used in biomedical research. A statistical R package named Taba https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Taba/Taba.pdf  has been introduced to calculate Taba robust correlations, similarity measures, partial, semi-partial, and generalized partial correlations.