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

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.

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

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.

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

I wanted to show women that it was possible that when you do agricultural sciences, you can go on and do more for your career development.

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

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

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

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.

I found my niche, and I have not looked back.

OWSD has provided tremendous support in shaping my career as a researcher, science ambassador, role model for women scientists and a "think high" human being.

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.

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

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.

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.

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