Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
How do healthy cells turn into cancer cells? Saumya Bollam studies skin cancer cells in mice to find out what "the promoter" is when cancer begins growing in the body.
Bollam was a UCSF Grad Slam 2023 presenter, a competition that challenges PhD students to present a compelling talk on their research in three minutes or less using compelling language that non-specialists can understand.
For students, the contest is an incentive to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. For the audience, it's an entertaining glimpse into research graduate students are engaged in. https://graduate.ucsf.edu/grad-slam
View all 10 Grad Slam competition talks: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVLbDUiGesPxqpjXZ6PUZOLQ8QPoSQZbk
Saumya Bollam is part of the UCSF Biomedical Sciences Program
Allan Balmain, PhD, faculty mentor
https://bms.ucsf.edu/
How do healthy cells turn into cancer cells? Saumya Bollam studies skin cancer cells in mice to find out what "the promoter" is when cancer begins growing in the body.
Bollam was a UCSF Grad Slam 2023 presenter, a competition that challenges PhD students to present a compelling talk on their research in three minutes or less using compelling language that non-specialists can understand.
For students, the contest is an incentive to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. For the audience, it's an entertaining glimpse into research graduate students are engaged in. https://graduate.ucsf.edu/grad-slam
View all 10 Grad Slam competition talks: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVLbDUiGesPxqpjXZ6PUZOLQ8QPoSQZbk
Saumya Bollam is part of the UCSF Biomedical Sciences Program
Allan Balmain, PhD, faculty mentor
https://bms.ucsf.edu/
