Samal Lab

The Samal Lab is about to open its doors on January 2, 2024 at the UAB department of Biomedical Engineering. Stay tuned!

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Postdoctoral Fellows: we are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow!

Graduate Students: We welcome students from BME, Chemistry and Biological Sciences Ph.D. program. We are very welcoming of visiting graduate students too.

01/08/2024: The group welcomes its newest member Chiara Chie! Chiara is an undergraduate and honor’s college student at UAB. Welcome Chiara.

The group welcomes its newest members Amitesh, Nick and Meghana! Amitesh and Meghana come to us from India and are currently pursuing Master’s in Data Science and Biotechnology respectively. Nick is an undergraduate and honor’s college student at UAB. Welcome all!

April, 2024: Dr. Samal serves as a panelist at the UAB 2024 Society of Women Engineers annual event

04/26/2024: Nick is awarded the Presidential Honors Fellowship to pursue summer research in Samal Lab. Congratulations Nick!

05/01/2024: Our awesome postdoc, Dr. Muthuvel, joins us from NTU Singapore. Welcome Muthuvel!

05/06/2024: Cameron is awarded an MSSRP Fellowship to pursue his research in Samal Lab. Congratulations Cameron!

06/18/2024: The lab is funded with the School of Engineering Innovation Fellowship.

07/11/2024: First official Samal Lab paintball outing with Tyrrell Lab. Missing some awesome lab members but so many more fun outings to come!

07/26/2024: Nick presents his research at the UAB Undergraduate Research Expo! Go Nick!

08/14/2024: Dr. Samal is an invited speaker at the Society of Biomaterials Southeast Symposia at Georgia Tech.

09/05/2024: Dr. Samal gives an invited talk at the CNC annual retreat in the “New UAB faculty” session.

09/06/2024: Dr. Samal presents a talk at the Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology Seminar series at UAB, Biomedical Engineering.

09/20/2024: Dr. Samal presents at Society for Biomaterials, Southeast Symposia as an invited speaker for Biointerfaces session.

10/18/2024: Lab celebrates fall’24 with pumpkin painting at BMEGS annual event

10/23/24: Nick presents a poster at LatinX in BME Annual Symposium at Johns Hopkins University. Congratulations Nick!

10/24/2024: Dr. Samal organizes “Communities of Color in Biomedical Engineering’ luncheon (sold out event) at Annual Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Meeting 2024 in Baltimore. Panelists: Dr. Monet Roberts (Virginia Tech), Dr. Daniel Gallego-Perez (The Ohio State University) and Dr. Evan Scott (University of Virginia)

10/25/24: Dr. Samal presents a talk at Neural tissue engineering session at BMES 2024, Baltimore!

11/07/2024: Meghana wins the people’s choice award at the 2024 UAB Three Minute Thesis competition. Congratulations Meghana!

12/04/2024: Chiara presents her research on gender disparities in the field of biomedical mass spectrometry at UAB Fall Research Expo 2024.

12/11/2024: Chiara wins the Best Poster Award for her poster presentation at UAB Fall Research Expo 2024. Congratulations Chiara!

01/24/2025: Drs. Samal and Tyrrell were awarded the HSOM Immunology Institute and the HSOM I-4ward Strategic Theme COMET voucher from 29 very competitive applications.

04/14/2025: Meghana presented her research at UAB Neurogateways and did an AMAZING job! Congratulations, Meghana!

04/25/2025: Lab at the end of semester lab social at the Big Escape Rooms at Birmingham! We almost #escaped!

06/30/2025: Dr. Samal, Eli and Meghana attended PAT2025 at UA Tuscaloosa. Eli presented his research poster in the conference! Go Eli!

07/25/2025: Sukirty joins the lab as a Blazer Fellow for graduate research in Biomedical Engineering from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Welcome Sukirty!

10/23/2025: Sukirty and Eli presented their ongoing research on immune cell glycosylation at the UAB Immunology Symposium. Great job!

11/05/2025: The lab gets together UAB BMES undergraduate student chapter meeting at UAB for BMES Recognition Night!