Research output per year
Research output per year
Dr
The University of Western Australia (M582), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Associate Professor Meehan is Head of the Cancer Biology Division within the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Western Australia. She graduated with a BSc (First Class Honours) from Curtin University in 1998, completed a PhD from UWA in 2002 and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Curtin University in 2015. Despite a non-linear career trajectory, she has ~8.5 years of national and international research and teaching experience in cancer biology and pathology. Dr Meehan has worked at the British Columbia Cancer Agency (Vancouver, Canada), University of Arizona (Tucson, USA) and Hudson Institute of Medical Research (Melbourne, Australia). Dr Meehan has published 37 papers in high quality journals and has secured over $1.8 million dollars as a chief investigator.
Dr Meehan’s current research program includes a number of projects including:
Co-lead: Dr Annette Lim, Medical Oncologist.
Co-lead: Dr Annette Lim, Medical Oncologist.
Co-lead: Dr Andrew Redfern, Medical Oncologist.
In addition to her undergraduate teaching duties (Cancer Pathology), Katie is currently supervising 5 PhD students, 1 master’s student and 3 honours students.
Leads a breast cancer research program and co-leads a head and neck cancer research program.
Head of Division
Graduate Research Co-ordinator
Honours Co-cordinator
NHMRC external reviewer
Past 5 years only
2017
NH&MRC Equipment Grant, $33,500 (CI); ‘The iCelligence System’.
Cancer Council WA Project Grant, $100,000/1 yr (CIA); “Improved HER2 testing towards better breast cancer outcomes”.
Cancer Council WA Project Grant, $100,000/1 yr (CIB); “Improving Aboriginal Breast Cancer Outcomes”.
Cancer Council WA Collaborative Research Scheme, $50,000/1yr (CIA); “Defeating the Deficient in Aboriginal Breast Cancer Outcomes”.
Cancer Research Trust, $3,750,000/5 years (AI); “Enabling Advanced Single Cell Cancer Genomics in Western Australia”.
2016
Cancer Council WA Collaborative Research Scheme, $50,000/1yr (CIB); “Understanding the Role of Melanoma Exosomes in Intercellular Communication”.
2015
Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation Conjoint Grant, $330,000/3 years (Co-CI). “Assessing the prognostic value of mechanisms that facilitate the metastatic potential in oral carcinomas”.
Raine Priming Grant, $210,000/2 yrs (AI) – declined due to receipt of larger funding for the project.
Cancer Council WA Early Career Investigators Grant, $35,000/1yr (AI); “New blood based markers for monitoring and detecting oral cancers with a focus on premalignant transformation of disease”.
Royal Australasian College of Physicians GlaxoSmithKline Research Establishment Fellowship $50,000/1yr (CIB); “Mechanisms that facilitate metastatic potential in base of tongue carcinomas”.
2013
Cancer Council WA Suzanne Cavanagh Early Career Investigator Grant, $25,000/1yr (CIA); “Sensitive blood-based monitoring of breast cancer”
University of Western Australia Ada Bartholomew Grant, $30,000/1yr (CIA); “Personalised Pathology for Breast Cancer Patients: Development of new biomarkers to improve patient outcome”
PATH3309 Cancer Pathology
Graduate Research Co-ordinator
Honours Co-cordinator
Teaching in:
Path3301 Pathobiology of Human Disease
PATH3302 Human Oncobiology
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Biostatistics, Graduate Certificate in Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Curtin University
Award Date: 31 Dec 2015
Prostate Cancer, PhD, Characterisation of early stage markers of prostate cancer, The University of Western Australia
Award Date: 30 Apr 2002
Biomedical Science, Bachelor Deree, Bachelor of Medical Science (with distinction and first class honours), Curtin University
Award Date: 31 Dec 1999
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Takano, E. A. (Creator), Younes, M. M. (Creator), Meehan, K. (Creator), Spalding, L. (Creator), Yan, M. (Creator), Allan, P. (Creator), Fox, S. B. (Creator), Redfern, A. (Creator), Clouston, D. (Creator), Giles, G. G. (Creator), Christie, E. L. (Creator), Anderson, R. L. (Creator), Zethoven, M. (Creator), Phillips, K.-A. (Creator), Gorringe, K. (Creator) & Britt, K. L. (Creator), Figshare, 19 May 2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22978079.v1, https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_5_of_Estrogen_receptor_beta_expression_in_triple_negative_breast_cancers_is_not_associated_with_recurrence_or_survival/22978079/1
Dataset
Takano, E. A. (Creator), Younes, M. M. (Creator), Meehan, K. (Creator), Spalding, L. (Creator), Yan, M. (Creator), Allan, P. (Creator), Fox, S. B. (Creator), Redfern, A. (Creator), Clouston, D. (Creator), Giles, G. G. (Creator), Christie, E. L. (Creator), Anderson, R. L. (Creator), Zethoven, M. (Creator), Phillips, K.-A. (Creator), Gorringe, K. (Creator) & Britt, K. L. (Creator), Figshare, 19 May 2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22978079, https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_5_of_Estrogen_receptor_beta_expression_in_triple_negative_breast_cancers_is_not_associated_with_recurrence_or_survival/22978079
Dataset
Yeoh, G. (Investigator 01), Forrest, A. (Investigator 02), Ganss, R. (Investigator 03), Blancafort, P. (Investigator 04), Swaminatha Iyer, I. (Investigator 05), Pavlos, N. (Investigator 06), Xu, J. (Investigator 07), Kirkham, L.-A. (Investigator 08), Dwivedi, G. (Investigator 09), Ingley, E. (Investigator 10), Davern, K. (Investigator 11), Kahler, C. (Investigator 12), Meehan, K. (Investigator 13), Lesterhuis, W. (Investigator 14), Hamzah, J. (Investigator 15), Prele, C. (Investigator 16) & Mutsaers, S. (Investigator 17)
NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Redfern, A. (Investigator 01), Meehan, K. (Investigator 02), Martin, H. (Investigator 03), Shahid, S. (Investigator 04), Pilkington, L. (Investigator 05), Bulsara, M. (Investigator 06) & Stone, J. (Investigator 07)
1/01/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
Meehan, K. (Investigator 01), Redfern, A. (Investigator 02), Dessauvagie, B. (Investigator 03) & Erber, W. (Investigator 04)
1/01/18 → 30/11/19
Project: Research
Meehan, K. (Investigator 01), Shahid, S. (Investigator 02), Martin, H. (Investigator 03) & Dessauvagie, B. (Investigator 04)
1/01/18 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Xu, J. (Investigator 01), Pavlos, N. (Investigator 02), Tickner, J. (Investigator 03), Meehan, K. (Investigator 04), Mullin, B. (Investigator 05) & Jiang, H. (Investigator 06)
NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council
1/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research