Dr Michelle Sahai
Lecturer in Biosciences
Summary
Dr Michelle Sahai is a Lecturer in Biosciences (Drug Discovery) since 2024. She completed her first two degrees at the University of Toronto, before moving to the UK where she received her PhD in Computational Biochemistry from the Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry Unit at the University of Oxford. After receiving her PhD degree, she carried out postdoctoral research at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, at the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. She worked as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Roehampton from 2014-2023. Her research focuses on answering important questions relating to membrane proteins and the structural, dynamic and electronic determinants of biological processes underlying physiological functions.
Qualifications
- Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy UK, 2023
- DPhil Computational Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK, 2011
- MSc in Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada, 2007
- Hons BSc, University of Toronto, Canada, 2003
Responsibility
I am a Lecturer in Biosciences with Research and Teaching responsibilities.
Newest selected publications
Arroyo-Berdugo, Y., Di Mambro, A., Behrends, V., Sahai, MA., Cozzuto, L., Zollo, I., et al. (2025) 'Exploiting PP2A dependent and independent effects of forskolin for therapeutic targeting of KMT2A (MLL)-rearranged acute leukaemia'. British Journal of Pharmacology, 182 (24). pp. 6043 - 6062. ISSN: 0007-1188
Filipe, A., Saravi, S., Mustafov, D., Panfilov, S., Banger, S., Mousavikivaj, S., et al. (2025) 'Emerging roles of the cancerous inhibitor of protein phosphatase 2A (CIP2A) in ovarian cancer'. Scientific Reports, 15 (1). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 2045-2322 Open Access Link
Sahai, MA. and Ivanova, A. (2022) 'Case study: Biochemistry without borders: A case study utilising infographics'. Essays in Biochemistry, 66 (1). pp. 65 - 73. ISSN: 0071-1365 Open Access Link
Sahai, MA. and Opacka-Juffry, J. (2021) 'Molecular mechanisms of action of stimulant novel psychoactive substances that target the high-affinity transporter for dopamine'. Neuronal Signaling, 5 (4). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 2059-6553 Open Access Link
Loi, B., Sahai, MA., De Luca, MA., Shiref, H. and Opacka-Juffry, J. (2020) 'The Role of Dopamine in the Stimulant Characteristics of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)—Neurobiological and Computational Assessment Using the Case of Desoxypipradrol (2-DPMP)'. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 11. pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 1663-9812 Open Access Link