Dr Jenette Creaney

creaneyj@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Dr Creaney is the Chief Investigator on the NCARD grant which examine and measure sensitive serum markers for improved diagnosis, monitoring and screening for early detection of mesothelioma.

Jenette received her PhD in 1995, 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 Robinson and Dr Richard Lake in Perth, on principally the marker discovery projects. Jenette has played the lead role in this project and has been responsible for much of the intellectual and technical basis for the work, maintaining the serum and tissue archives, performing and optimising assays and (immunologic, proteomic and genomic) experiments and results analysis.

Jenette has been published in the Lancet as second author on work specific to the discovery of SMRP, as well as having several first author papers in preparation. Jenette has received several prestigious awards for her work in Science including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. Concentrating on development of markers for mesothelioma, Jenette has been awarded 4 grants, a SCGH Research Grant, 2 NHMRC Project Grants and in 2005, a Cancer Council Western Australia grant. Jenette is currently receiving a fellowship from UWA.