A research lab by students, for students.

Values of the Sawar Lab

We recognize that we are at our best when we work together and pool ideas of people from various backgrounds. Sawar Lab members strive to promote equity by identifying, discussing, and engaging with problems that impact our communities. We intend to maintain an inclusive environment that facilitates collaboration, innovation, and scientific discovery.

At Sawar Lab, we value:

• Clinically-valuable research. We conduct research aimed at helping alleviate and eradicate human disease and suffering. We also focus on research that enhances undergraduate medical education.

• Teamwork. A team composed of people with diverse backgrounds allows us to approach problems with a multi-disciplinary approach that allows us to construct clinically interesting research questions and create practical solutions. Our lab selects for people who are excellent communicators and seek to improve the lives of everyone else in the lab.

• Deep scientific inquiry and rigor. We maintain high integrity, work to be the best scientists we can be, and publish our work only once it has been carefully tested, validated, and reviewed. We strive to create clear and impactful writing, compelling visualizations, and engaging presentations.

• Science as service. The purpose of our work is to serve humanity. To maximize the impact of our work, we openly share data and models whenever possible. We strive to communicate our work so that many stakeholders in the public and across research disciplines can benefit.

• People > papers. Science is an inherently human endeavor. Without people, there are no scientific (or non-scientific, for that matter) papers. We value each other, participants in our studies, collaborators, and everyone with whom we interact as people first.

• Following curiosity. Curiosity leads us down paths of discovery and encourages creativity in our research and the way we approach it. This allows us to grow individually and as a lab.

• Fun! Work can be stressful, and our plans don’t always work out the way we imagine. Having a group with the freedom to have fun makes those moments easier. After all, when we are having fun, we are healthier, happier, and more inspired.