Dayna Sais

Dayna Sais is a Lecturer in the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UTS (2022), focusing on HPV-induced head and neck cancers. Her postdoctoral research (2022–2024) involved studying cross-kingdom microRNAs during parasitic infections, particularly Helminth infections and host immune regulation. She is also a casual academic at UTS since 2019, teaching biomedical engineering subjects in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT).

Her research emphasizes regulatory RNAs in infectious diseases, including HPV-driven cancers and parasitic infections, with a focus on developing genomic network maps and diagnostic biomarkers. She has led funded projects such as 'The Use of Liquid Biopsy for High-Risk Stratification of HPV16-Positive Oral Cancer Patients' (2025–2027) and 'Use of Salivary Non-Coding RNA Biomarkers in Head and Neck Cancer' (2018–2021).

Dayna’s teaching roles include Advanced Biomedical Engineering Studio B (2024–present) and Data and Electrical Engineering courses (2020–2024). Her work bridges molecular biology, diagnostics, and clinical applications, with a focus on improving patient outcomes through innovative genomic approaches.