Professor Jenette Creaney

PROFESSOR JENETTE CREANEY

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
BSC, PHD

Professor Creaney is the Head of the Biomarkers and Discovery unit of NCARD. The group is investigating biomarkers for improved diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of patients with mesothelioma and lung cancer.

Jenette received her PhD in 1995 from La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), and has worked in the cancer and immunology fields as a molecular biologist and protein chemist since. Jenette returned to Australia from the US in 1999 to work with Professor Bruce Robinson in Perth, on principally the marker discovery projects. The work from the group includes the seminal work on the biomarker mesothelin for use in patients with mesothelioma. Her current research focus includes developing new personalised treatment approaches for cancer through neoantigen targeting.

Jenette has received several prestigious awards for her work in Science including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Young Investigator Award.

CURRENT PROJECTS

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

  • PhD candidate Amber Louw was awarded a research scholarship from the iCare NSW Dust Diseases Board
  • Best Poster Prize at the International Mesothelioma Conference, Ottawa, Canada, “Whole genome sequencing of malignant mesothelioma”.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

See Prof Jenette Creaney’s UWA Profile for a full list of publications

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