Udayshia Vencatasu

Udayshia Vencatasu is the Research Grants Officer at AHRI. She manages a range of grant portfolios, including all awards and grants belonging to SANTHE. She has a master’s degree in Microbiology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Her research focused on the screening, purification and elucidation of anti-HIV compounds from endophytic fungi isolated from Zanthoxylem capense. Vencatasu has years of laboratory experience and is bridging the link between grants management and scientific research.