Nadia Chaudhri, a neuroscientist who studied drug and alcohol abuse, died on October 5 after a yearlong battle with ovarian cancer. She was 43. In the last year of her life, she became well known for the frank discussion of her declining health while also advocating for ovarian cancer research and fundraising to help underrepresented students further their education.
Chaudhri was born in Karachi, Pakistan. According to the website for The Nadia Chaudhri Wingspan Award, she came to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. After getting her undergraduate biology degree in 1999, she attended the University of Pittsburgh to get her PhD in neuroscience, which she completed in 2005. Then, she did a postdoc at the University of California, San Francisco.
She became an assistant professor at Concordia University in Montreal in 2010 and received tenure as an associate professor ...
