Winning this award opened many doors for me. It has led to success in acquiring local funding.

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

I desire to see my country, Nigeria, become a leading destination for impactful clinical studies.

“Am very proud to say that I am encouraging other Cameroonian female scientists to apply for the OWSD fellowship programme and some of them have obtained the grant."

When I am seeing an impact, that’s what makes me as a scientist feel an achievement

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.

When I got my OWSD fellowship, it was an amazing feeling. Before getting the letter, my academic career was a dream, the letter made it possible.

OWSD's guidance and support allowed me to uncover hidden courage and realize aspects of myself that I never thought I possessed.

I wanted to do applied physics, not theoretical physics… I really wanted to use all of the knowledge that I acquired at university to explain our environment.

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

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

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.

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.

I really want to do something for my country. Being part of the Sudan national chapter has given me that chance.

After my postdoc, I will return to Syria and work to achieve my big dream, which is to establish a research center.

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.