Prof. Himla Soodyall University of the Witwatersrand and National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa

Professor Himla Soodyall is the Director of the MRC/NHLS/Wits Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit at the National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Witwatersrand. Her research makes use of the tools commonly used in molecular biology to study genomic variation in living people to reconstruct their prehistory... read moreand evolution. She is currently the Principal Investigator representing the sub-Saharan African region in the Genographic Project, a five-year project that is being undertaken by the National Geographic Society in conjunction with IBM and the Waitt Family Foundation.