My dear girls in science: be strong, inquisitive, curious, assertive, resilient, and focused. Go for gold!

I owe ‘what’, ‘who’ and ‘where’ I am in my career and professional practice today to OWSD because without the PHD Fellowship, all my achievements today would have been nothing but bleak.

The main problem in radiotherapy is that most cancer cells are resistant to radiation.

My position is that we should acknowledge what we are lacking of, so that we can keep working.

By creating links between food research and industry, she hopes to enhance food security both in Ghana and in Africa as a whole.

If we do research, in addition to establishing connections with other researchers, we must also communicate and do a lot of outreach in order to share our science with the community.

The OWSD award helped me not only to become the researcher I am today, but also to become a leader in research.

" I can boldly declare that OWSD rewarded my brilliance thus giving me recognition and confidence in my professional arena and placed me in national and international scientific communities.”

I intend to disperse my achieved knowledge as one of the leading researchers in my country in the domain of microbial biotechnology, to support sustainable and prosperous agriculture.

OWSD fellowship represents a real empowering difference in my life and career

Just give me the seed and I will continue.

I want to be in the boardroom. I want to be part of the policy mechanism. I want my influence to go higher than the classroom.

All this has broadened my knowledge for this domain of science, gave me an open mind and also allowed me to learn many things.

When you are following your passion, people will always see what you are doing. People will see that you are doing something different, and they will help you.

Dr. Shammi's research will help to fill a crucial gap in the the global understanding of carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas emissions by providing data on one of the world’s largest river systems.

I have to think of something that can help us, that we can use based on resources that we have. The lack of things is the biggest inspiration in my life. I want to help my country.

What has surprised me is the way technology is emerging and affecting the current state of research. We are encountering a fourth industrial revolution that entails advances in computing power, quantum computing and artificial intelligence, which has already been shown to alter the way we conduct research.

“Ten to fifteen years from now, people, not only in Kenya but in the African continent, will switch to magnetic refrigeration”

You must first be safe to be able to think about the environment.