Sumaira Sardar is a graduate student in the Anastas lab, and she joined in 2025. Sumaira completed her B.A. at Hendrix College. She has the ability to tell when water is at 42°C by touch. Sumaira is interested in understanding the mechanisms in cancer to find druggable targets. 

hometown: Maumelle, Arkansas

favorite drugs: PTEN, WNT pathway, Drug treatments, DNA damage repair

outside the lab: sewing, bad movie book club, trying restaurants with the tony "Tony" in their title, reaching her step count for the day, getting a little treat