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"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 COVID-19 pandemic. The ...
Errol York St Aubyn Morrison (born 21 September 1945) is a Jamaican scientist who has done extensive work in diabetes and is president of the University of Technology, Jamaica. [ 1 ] He entered the University College of the West Indies where he acquired an interest in Biochemistry.
Thomas Phillip Lecky, known as T.P. Lecky (1904-1994), was a Jamaican scientist who developed several new breeds of cattle.Lecky is known as one of Jamaica's earliest environmentalists, and a strong advocate for conservation of hillsides. [1]
First Caribbean prostate cancer cell line (ACRJ-PC28), by Simone Badal McCreath. [14] [15] Discovery of Kwashiorkor, by Cicely Williams. She also developed a treatment regime to combat the disease. [16] Discovery of monamycin antibiotic, by Kenneth E. Magnus (and Cedric Hassall).
In 2007 at a conference of the Caribbean poison information network (CARPIN), Lowe spoke of the commercial benefits possible from research into medicinal cannabis. [28] In 2013 Lowe established Medicanja; a company to produce and commercialize products based on cannabis. [29] [30] [31] He is the firm's Executive Chairman and chief scientist.
Petters is known for his work in the mathematical theory of gravitational lensing.. Over the ten-year period from 1991 to 2001, Petters systematically developed a mathematical theory of weak-deflection gravitational lensing, beginning with his 1991 MIT Ph.D. thesis on "Singularities in Gravitational Microlensing". [12]
Originally named the Caribbean Marine Biological Institute (CARMABI), the station was founded in 1955 at the bay's open end. Its work centered on research in the field of ecology—fisheries. As the bay front has extensive coral reefs, research in the field of coral reef science was initiated in 1969.
She saw herself primarily as a field scientist, [4] and did extensive field work in North and South America, specializing in the insects of Guyana and Florida. From the late 1970s through 1996, Collins was a research associate in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History , Department of Entomology . [ 7 ]