Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University

Saie is a PhD candidate at the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She received her master’s in Molecular and Cell Biology in 2014 from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, and a bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology in 2013 from Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil University, Navi Mumbai, India. Her doctoral research in Dr. Adam Glick’s lab focuses on understanding the molecular basis of ER stress-dependent and -independent roles of the unfolded protein response sensor IRE1a in early stages of non-melanoma skin cancers using monolayer and multicellular spheroid cultures. With an extensive background in cancer cell signaling, cancer model development, and genomics, her research interests are to understand complex biological pathways facilitating the interaction between cancer cells and tumor stroma during the acquisition of carcinogenic potential.