Simone Badal-McCreath | |
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Born | Simone Anna Marie Badal |
Nationality | Jamaican |
Alma mater | University of the West Indies |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cancer research |
Simone Anne Marie Badal-McCreath is a Jamaican chemist and cancer researcher.[1] In 2014 she was one of five women awarded the Elsevier Foundation Award for Early Career Scientists in the Developing World for her creation of a lab at the Natural Products Institute to research the anti-cancer properties of natural Jamaican products.[2][3][4][5][6] She currently lectures in Basic Medical Sciences ) in Mona, Jamaica.[7][1]
Growing up the daughter of a shop keeper in a family where no one had attended college, she intended to study medicine. Her science education was held back by a lack of teachers in her local school and it was once she reached university that she decided to be a researcher.[8]
As of 2023 she was Senior lecturer at University of the West Indies Mona. Badal-McCreath was awarded the 2014 Elsevier Early Career Woman Scientist award in Chemical Sciences for the Latin America and Caribbean region.[9]
She hopes to eventually market products that result from research in which she is involved. leading her to pursue a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She believes that the ultimate goal of scientific research is for it to be able to make money and contribute to society.[1]
"Knowledge is power.... accumulating as much data as you can and publishing these in peer reviewed journals contributes significantly to future research." - Simone Badal-McCreath, 2014.[10]
In 2024, she published No Cell Left Behind: A Jamaican Scientist's Breakthrough to the First Caribbean Cell Line, ACRJ-PC28 about the discovery of a prostate cancer cell, leading to the first developed Caribbean cell line.[11] Also in 2024, British researchers summarizing research on the many lines of prostate cancer [PCa] cells concluded that "PCa cell lines are poorly clinically relevant."[12]
In June 2024 it was reported by Retraction Watch that Badal-McCreath had been miscredited as sole author of several chapters of the of the 2023 edition of the textbook Pharmacognosy: Fundamentals, Application and Strategy. The chapters had appeared by the original authors in a 2017 edition of the textbook, but their names were removed and replaced by Badal-McCreath's as "S. Badal," one of the book's editors. One of the original chapter authors, ethnobotanist Ina Vandebroek, reportedly sent a cease and desist letter to publisher Elsevier, demanding that the company stop “distributing and selling copies of the textbook that contain the plagiarized chapter and take appropriate steps to collect and destroy all physical and digital copies that have been distributed.” Retraction Watch stated that Vandebroek's chapter was unmodified "except for two added sentences from Badal." Elsevier is said to have agreed to revert authorship to Vandebroek and "credit the original authors along with the revising author as appropriate" in a future revision.[13]
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