Sohal Lab has received Core Services funding from the Biodiscovery Institute (BDI) at UNT to work with the BioAnalytical Facility to conduct metabolomic profiling of cancer-derived extracellular vesicles-mediated T cell suppression! 🎉🎉

We are grateful to the BDI for supporting our work and are super excited to conducting the proposed work.

We’re excited to have two new students join the lab!! 🎉🎉

Judi Awadi (left) is biology undergraduate student majoring in forensic science and minoring in chemistry.

Sanjana Munagala (right) is a high school student who has been accepted to the UNT TAMS Early Summer Research Program. She will be joining UNT as a TAMS student in Fall 2026.

The Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) at the University of North Texas (UNT) is the nation’s first early college entrance residential program for gifted high school aged students. If admitted into TAMS, students withdraw from their high schools and enter the world of university education at UNT.

We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Jason Hanna, PhD from Purdue University! He presented his latest work in the BioFrontiers Seminar Series on the mechanistic understanding and therapeutic targeting of angiosarcomas!

Hanna Lab is among the handful of labs studying and developing new resources for these rare vascular cancers, and it was great to see the amazing work his lab is doing in this direction.

The Sohal Lab is now part of the Biodiscovery Institute (BDI) at UNT. BDI brings together researchers across disciplines to solve complex biological challenges, including cancer. The institute also provides professional development opportunities for graduate students and postdocs.

We are grateful to the BDI for welcoming us and look forward to collaborating with other BDI members to accelerate scientific discovery.

We’re excited to start 2026 with some great news!! 🎉🎉

Emmanuel Lamptey is joining the lab all the way from Ghana as the first Ph.D. student! ✈️

Looking forward to supporting him on his research journey and investing in his success! 😃😃

We’re thrilled to welcome two highly motivated undergraduate students – Tanvi Verma and Diya Patel, as the very first members of the lab! 🚀

We’re especially excited to have them contribute to both the lab setup and our research efforts as we get things rolling.

Honestly… can’t tell who’s more excited — the students or the PI! 😄

The Sohal Lab has been awarded an R03 grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate how extracellular vesicles modulate the tumor immune microenvironment. This support empowers us to deepen our understanding of cellular communication in cancer and explore new avenues for therapeutic intervention.

We are grateful to the NCI for this opportunity and look forward to contributing meaningful insights to the cancer research community.

Here we go! It is the start of the Sohal Lab! As a lab that studies cell-cell communication, one of our goals will be to effectively communicate our scientific findings to the scientific audience as well as to the general public. But our immediate goal will be to fill this photo with more amazing researchers! 😉

Talons up! 🦅