Simone Badal-McCreath
Simone Anne Marie Badal-McCreath is a Jamaican chemist and cancer researcher. 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. She currently lectures in Basic Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Mona, Jamaica. Early life. 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. Authorship. Along with Rupika Delgoda, she is the co-author of the textbook "Pharmacognosy: Fundamentals, Application and Strategy". She is currently writing her first book, "A Woman's Journey to Success". Career. Badal-McCreath's work is currently focused on investigating isolates of Jamaican plants which may contain anti-cancer properties, and isolating a unique Jamaican cell line, to counteract the dominance of Caucasian cell dominance in research. More specifically, Badal-McCreath  and her colleagues isolated the compounds in a common seaweed called "Cympolia barbata" and tested them in human cells. She aims to market her products eventually, 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."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.