Simone Ann Marie Badal McCreath is a

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er and a medical sciences lecturer known for the creation of the first ever prostate and breast cancer cells lines that were derived from Black people.

Life and career

The daughter of a shop keeper, Badal McCreath’s mother left the family when she was young; and her step-mother and she did not get along. Badal McCreath’s science education was deterred by a lack of teachers in her local school and it was only when she reached University that she decided to be a researcher. Badal McCreath grew up in a poor community where no one in her family had ever attended college. While attending

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, Badal McCreath decided not to practice medicine but to build a career in research. "There was this one professor who taught biochemistry," she says. "I remember falling in love with biochemistry right then and there." Badal McCreath was chosen among 25 scientists worldwide for the inaugural "Rising Scholars: Breast Cancer Program". She led a team at The University of the West Indies (UWI) in creating the first cancer cell line from the Caribbean in 2022 during the

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pandemic. The intent was to create more cancer cell lines for black people in the fight against prostate and breast cancer.

Awards

On February 15, 2014, Badal McCreath, along with four other women chemists from across the world, was awarded the ''Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World''. The winning researchers represented five regions of the developing world from Indonesia, Jamaica, Nigeria, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

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External links

Simone Ann Marie Badal - Mona UWI Edu Staff.
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