Dr. Samar Rezq is an Instructor at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, MS, USA. She got her B.Sc. in 2005 and M.Sc. in 2010 in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Egypt. She was awarded Ph.D. Scholarship from the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education in 2012 to get her Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, NC, USA in 2016. In 2016, She worked as Lecturer of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Egypt. She was awarded Endocrinology and Metabolism Section 2020 Research Recognition Award and Renal Section 2021 Research Recognition Award from the American Physiological Society. She is a member of the American Physiological Society, American Heart Association, and Endocrine Society. Her research focuses on the role of microRNA-21 in the metabolic derangements in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. She has 23 publications.