Fellow Hadiza Lawal Abdullahi (Nigeria, 2022) recently completed a short research stay at the Center of Excellence in Mycotoxicology and Public Health at Ghent University in Belgium, representing one of seven postdoctoral fellows of this year’s Open Doors Fellowship program. Hadiza is a biochemist in toxinology and medical laboratory scientist seeking to improve food security by addressing mycotoxin contamination in food, animal feed, and agricultural products in Nigeria and the world over. In addition to the Open Doors Fellowship, she has won a grant for £32,000 GBP from the UK-based Africa Research Excellence Fund to complete a 6-month research development fellowship to study modern approaches to snakebite therapies at the Venoms and Toxins Unit of Institut Pasteur of Morocco. Furthermore, she has won a $50,000 USD grant from the Association of American University Women’s (AAUW) postdoctoral fellowship with the National University of Singapore and the National Natural Toxins Research Center (NNTRC) at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. In her permanent post, she is an associate professor and postdoctoral researcher at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria where she also serves as head of the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry. ​