Nadia Chaudhri, a neuroscientist with terminal ovarian cancer who used her final months to raise money for graduate students of diverse backgrounds and to educate the public about her disease through a widely followed social media chronicle, died Oct 5 at a hospital in Montreal. She was 43.
She documented her last months with ovarian cancer on Twitter while raising funds to support students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the sciences.
Concordia professor Dr. Nadia Chaudhri has died. She had a long list of accomplishments, but countless strangers are also mourning her, in surprisingly personal ways, after following her online as she confronted death.
As a neuroscientist and an associate professor in Concordia University’s psychology department, Nadia Chaudhri uses Twitter to stay in touch with colleagues and communicate about her research, which deals with how the brain contributes to behaviour in alcohol-use disorders. But the subject of her tweet on the morning of May 11 was something else entirely. “Today is the day I tell my son that I’m dying from cancer,” Chaudhri, 43, tweeted from a.