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          Professor Himla Soodyall.

        1. Himla Soodyall is the Executive Officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and Research Professor in Human Genetics at the.
        2. Prof Himla Soodyall is the Executive Officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), and has been elected as an international member of the National.
        3. Himla Soodyall.
        4. The deep history of humans in Africa and the complex divergences and migrations among ancient human genetic lineages remain poorly understood.

          5. Prof Himla Soodyall is the Executive Officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), and has been elected as an international member of the National....

          Himla Soodyall

          (b.02 07 1963) South African geneticist

          Himla (Himladevi) Soodyall (b Durban, 1963[1]) is a South African geneticist involved in finding some of the oldest human genetic lines, mainly focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa.[2] Her work on DNA has pointed to southern Africa as the most likely geographic region of origin of the human species.[1][3]

          She is Director of the Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Service at the University of the Witwatersrand.[4] She was awarded a Bronze Order of Mapungubwe in 2005 for her "Outstanding contributions in the field of science" in South Africa.

          Education

          Soodyall was born in Durban and educated at Gandhi-Desai High School before obtaining a BSc and BScHons at the University of Durban-Westville and an MSc in biotechnology from the University of the Witwatersrand.

          Her PhD, on human population and evolutionary genetics, was obtained