Vidushi Neergheen

Vidushi is an associate professor since April 2019 based at the Biopharmaceutical Unit at the Centre for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research at the University of Mauritius. She graduated with a PhD in Biosciences in 2008. Her research interest focusses on the cancer preventive effects of nutraceuticals, functional food and medicinal plants. This discipline involves interdisciplinary research and holds much promise in reducing the burden of several types of cancers in the African countries. Vidushi firmly believes that there is a dire need to recognise and advocate this approach in the promotion of health towards the implementation of the sustainable development goals. Moreover, to uphold her belief and engagement in scientific networking and knowledge sharing, she has been an active member of the Global Young Academy from 2012 to 2017, has been a Next Einstein Forum Ambassador and is a fellow of the African Science Leadership Program. In 2014, she was honoured by the World Economic Forum as one of the Global Young Scientists. In 2017, she received the Best African Woman Researcher Award from Merck Africa for her outstanding contribution to cancer research. She is currently a Next Einstein Forum fellow and the Vice-President of the Mauritian Chapter of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World.