Professor Delgoda is the Director of the Caribbean Centre for Research in Bioscience (CCRIB) and former Director of the Natural Products Institute (NPI) at The UWI, Mona. She has been recognized by the Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence for her contruibutuon to Science & Technology: "Under her leadership and strategic direction the NPI grew from a concept to a full fledged dedicated research institution with graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and full-time researchers. Her vision and assiduous work played an instrumental role in the establishment and expansion of NPI’s laboratory facilities and she has steered it to become a highly successful collaborative research entity dedicated to the development of natural products"