With scarce research opportunities, Sana built her expertise by bridging wet-lab and computational methods—mastering PCR, gel electrophoresis, and cell culture, then diving into UMAP, heatmaps, and phylogenetic analyses. She’s part of papers on epigenetic signatures, transcriptome clustering as first-author, and contributing author on spatial transcriptomics-related gliomas research, thanks to invaluable guidance from her MS supervisors and inspiring peers and mentors.