Bhavya Papineni presented a poster at the GBS Symposium 2025, highlighting her research on the role of obesity in triple-negative breast cancer progression.
We’re proud of Bhavya for representing the lab and sharing her work with the next generation of graduate students!
Annie Popple presented a poster at the ENRICH Conference in July, 2025, highlighting her research on how Hedgehog signaling influences regulatory T cell metabolism in triple-negative breast cancer.
We’re proud of Annie for representing the lab and sharing her innovative work with the research community!
Congratulations to Courtney Swain, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis and graduated!! Courtney is an MSTP student, and after completing her graduate research, she will return to the clinic to continue her medical training.
Her research focused on understanding mechanisms that regulate T cell activity in breast cancer. We are so proud of her accomplishments and look forward to seeing all that she achieves as a physician-scientist!
Li’an Williams presented a poster at the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) Conference in April 2025, highlighting her research on how RNA polymerase I inhibition influences the tumor microenvironment in triple-negative breast cancer.
We’re proud of Li’an for representing the lab and sharing her exciting work with the scientific community!
Congratulations to Amr Elhamamsy, who successfully defended his Ph.D thesis and officially graduated! Amr’s research focused on elucidating the role of ribosome biogenesis in breast cancer. Throughout his time in the lab, Amr made significant contributions to our understanding of cancer cell biology and was an active mentor to junior trainees. We are very proud of his accomplishments and wish him continued success in his future endeavors!
In April 2023, graduate trainees of the Samant Lab, Courtney Swain and Amr Elhamamsy, traveled to Orlando, FL for the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting. They presented their PhD research and got the opportunity to network with other trainees and cancer experts from around the world.
In November 2022, Dominique Hinshaw, Ph.D., successfully defended her PhD. She presented her work involving studying the role of Hedgehog Signaling in regulatory T cell and macrophage metabolism and activity in breast cancer. Congratulations for her hard work and success! We’re excited to see her advance her career in the field of academic writing!
This past fall, trainees of the lab presented at the 2022 UAB Annual Pathology Retreat (organized by the UAB Department of Pathology) and the 2022 O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center (O’Neal CCC) Annual Retreat (organized by the O’Neal CCC). At both the Pathology and O’Neal CCC Retreats, Dominique was selected to give an oral presentation of her dissertation work. Courtney presented a poster presentation at the both the Pathology and O’Neal CCC Retreats as well.
At the 2022 Annual Pathology Retreat, Courtney won a Pre-Doctoral Poster Award for her presentation! And at the O’Neal CCC Annual Retreat, Dominique won 2nd place for the Graduat Trainee category for her oral presentation! Congratulations!
The 2022 UAB Virtual Microbiome Symposium was held on January 10th, 2022. You can find more information about the past symposium here: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/microbiome/education/microbiome-symposium
