Anna-Mart Engelbrecht is currently professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences at Stellenbosch University. She received several prestigious awards which include the Dean’s and Senate’s Medals as well as the Gencor Bronze Medal from the University of the Free State, the Marie Curie Scholarship of the European Union, the Rector’s award for Excellence in Research and the Vice-Rector’s Research Award for exceptional achievement from Stellenbosch University as well as the Lasec Award for Excellence in Physiology Research from the Physiological Society of Southern Africa (PSSA). She is the director of two University start-up companies, Biocode and Phyenti, and serves on the Governing Boards of The African Cancer Institute (ACI) and the Institute for Biomedical Engineering. Twenty-five MSc and 19 PhD students successfully completed the degrees under her supervision, and her students also won numerous awards. She currently supervises 5 MSc and 9 PhD students. She has published 100 peer-reviewed, research articles and presented invited lectures at national and international conferences.  She established the Cancer Research Group (CRG) where they investigate chemo-resistance; markers for the early detection of cancer, as well as metabolic pathways in the cancer microenvironment.