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Indian-origin freshman presents cancer research at NIH
Samiksha Yadav was the only undergraduate among 35 researchers selected to present at the NIH workshop.
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Malvika Choudhary - Mon, 11, May 2026
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Samiksha Yadav / Hillsdale College
An Indian-origin freshman presented research on hereditary breast cancer at a workshop hosted by the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, becoming the only undergraduate student selected to present among 35 researchers.
Samiksha Yadav, a 19-year-old biochemistry and pre-med student at Hillsdale College, presented her work during the April 14 workshop, “RNA as Cancer Drivers, Biomarkers and Therapeutics,” organized by the National Cancer Institute.
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The workshop brought together researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss advances in RNA-based cancer research, biomarkers, and therapeutics.
“The meeting went really well, and I also got to meet professors from Yale, Harvard, and NCI,” Yadav told the University Press. “I plan on studying this topic further and implementing a new approach in the near future.”
Yadav’s research examined hereditary breast cancers and microRNA interference, focusing on molecular pathways linked to familial breast cancer.
According to Hillsdale College, Yadav was the only undergraduate participant selected to present research at the NIH workshop.
Before enrolling at Hillsdale, Yadav conducted cancer genetics and neuroscience research while attending high school in India. She became one of the youngest researchers to have work published at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she also presented research related to cancer predisposition and neuroinformatics.
Last semester, Yadav had a research abstract accepted at Brown University’s Student Neurosurgery & Neurology Research Conference. She is also scheduled to present research at Stanford University’s 13th Annual Neuroscience Forum, conferences primarily geared toward medical students.
Yadav has dual-enrollment college coursework completed during high school in India, where she studied neuropsychology and leadership courses while conducting independent research.
Yadav is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in pre-medicine and biochemistry at Hillsdale College.
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