Monique Glenda Zaahl OMB (born 4 November 1975) is a South African geneticist.
Zaahl completed her undergraduate degree at Stellenbosch University, where she became interested in human genetics as a result of the influence of Professor Louise Warnich.
[1] She obtained her PhD at Stellenboch in 2003; she received the 2001 Commonwealth Split-Site Scholarship to complete part of her doctoral research at Oxford University under the supervision of Kathryn Robson.
It received support from the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation's Black Umbrellas business incubation programme, and in 2021 it moved its headquarters from Somerset West to Woodstock, Cape Town.
[6] In April 2010, President Jacob Zuma admitted her to the Order of Mapungubwe, granting her the award in Bronze "For her outstanding contribution to the field of genetics and research into disorders resulting from iron overload.