Biography:

Aisha Makama is an undergraduate student majoring in Biochemistry at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She conducts cancer research under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Feigin at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, where her work focuses on cancer-associated fibroblasts and therapeutic screening in pancreatic cancer. Aisha is a McNair Scholar, a Roswell SURCAN Fellow, and a CSTEP Research Intern. She aspires to pursue an MD-PhD to become a physician-scientist and is passionate about integrating laboratory discoveries with clinical applications to improve cancer treatment outcomes.