Kimberly Badal, PhD | UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Education

York University, Toronto, Canada, BSc, 2012, Biomedical Science
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, MSc, 2014, Biomedical Science
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, PhD, 2022, Molecular Genetics

Honors & Awards

2023
Columbia University Environmental Justice Bootcamp Travel Award
2019
York University Bryden Alumni “One to Watch” Awardee 2019
2018
American Association for Cancer Research Scientist Survivor Program Scholarship
2017
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Fellowship
2017
Sustainable Development Goals Youth Advocacy Campaign’s Short Film

Selected Publications

Badal K, Moore M, Thomas M. The Repository for Caribbean Cancer Publications (ReCCaP): Database Development and Publication Trends 2004-2019. Cancer Manag Res. 2021;13:5433-5442. doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S314853. eCollection 2021. Review. PubMed PMID: 34262351; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8275050.
Badal K, Ali R, Warner WA, Maniam A, Carrington A, Foster JE, Haraksingh R. Factors associated with breast cancer recurrence and survival at Sangre Grande Hospital, Trinidad. Cancer Causes Control. 2021 Jul;32(7):763-772. doi: 10.1007/s10552-021-01427-z. Epub 2021 Apr 9. PubMed PMID: 33835281.
Melosky B, Juergens R, McLeod D, Leighl N, Brade A, Card PB, Chu Q. Immune checkpoint-inhibitors and chemoradiation in stage III unresectable non-small cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer. 2019 Aug;134:259-267. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2019.05.027. Epub 2019 May 29. Review. PubMed PMID: 31319991.
de Taeye SW, Go EP, Sliepen K, de la Peña AT, Badal K, Medina-Ramírez M, Lee WH, Desaire H, Wilson IA, Moore JP, Ward AB, Sanders RW. Stabilization of the V2 loop improves the presentation of V2 loop-associated broadly neutralizing antibody epitopes on HIV-1 envelope trimers. J Biol Chem. 2019 Apr 5;294(14):5616-5631. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.005396. Epub 2019 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 30728245; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6462529.
Warner WA, Lee TY, Badal K, Williams TM, Bajracharya S, Sundaram V, Bascombe NA, Maharaj R, Lamont-Greene M, Roach A, Bondy M, Ellis MJ, Rebbeck TR, Slovacek S, Luo J, Toriola AT, Llanos AAM. Cancer incidence and mortality rates and trends in Trinidad and Tobago. BMC Cancer. 2018 Jul 4;18(1):712. doi: 10.1186/s12885-018-4625-x. PubMed PMID: 29973176; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6032795.
Warner WA, Lee TY, Fang F, Llanos AAM, Bajracharya S, Sundaram V, Badal K, Sookdeo VD, Roach V, Lamont-Greene M, Ragin C, Slovacek S, Ramsoobhag K, Brown J, Rebbeck TR, Maharaj R, Drake BF. The burden of prostate cancer in Trinidad and Tobago: one of the highest mortality rates in the world. Cancer Causes Control. 2018 Jul;29(7):685-697. doi: 10.1007/s10552-018-1038-8. Epub 2018 May 17. PubMed PMID: 29774450; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5999193.
Kerbel B, Badal K, Sundarrajan L, Blanco A, Unniappan S. Xenin is a novel anorexigen in goldfish (Carassius auratus). PLoS One. 2018;13(5):e0197817. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197817. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 29791497; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5965858.
Badal K, Rampersad F, Warner WA, Toriola AT, Mohammed H, Scheffel HA, Ali R, Moosoodeen M, Konduru S, Russel A, Haraksingh R. A situational analysis of breast cancer early detection services in Trinidad and Tobago. Cancer Causes Control. 2018 Jan;29(1):33-42. doi: 10.1007/s10552-017-0937-4. Epub 2017 Aug 11. PubMed PMID: 28801763.
Sahadeo N, Mohammed H, Allicock OM, Auguste AJ, Widen SG, Badal K, Pulchan K, Foster JE, Weaver SC, Carrington CV. Molecular Characterisation of Chikungunya Virus Infections in Trinidad and Comparison of Clinical and Laboratory Features with Dengue and Other Acute Febrile Cases. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Nov;9(11):e0004199. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004199. eCollection 2015 Nov. PubMed PMID: 26580074; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4651505.