Rate My Professor Jacqui Keenan

Keenan's career at the University of Otago includes supervising postgraduate students on projects related to non-invasive biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease in children, early-onset colorectal cancer, nutritional immunity and colon carcinogenesis, and dietary regulation of the colonic mucus barrier. Her key publications include 'Integrated multi-omic and symptom clustering reveals lower-gastrointestinal disorders of gut-brain interaction heterogeneity' in Gut Microbes (2026, co-author), 'The pathway to diagnosis of early-onset colorectal cancer: Exploring diagnostic intervals and their effect on outcomes' in Future Oncology (2025, co-author), 'Early onset colorectal cancer in Canterbury, New Zealand' in ANZ Journal of Surgery (2023, co-author), 'Detection of Chitinase 3-Like 1 in Symptomatic Primary Care Patients' (2023), 'Uptake of Helicobacter pylori Outer Membrane Vesicles by Gastric Cancer Cells' (2010), and 'Immune Response to an 18-Kilodalton Outer Membrane Protein of Helicobacter pylori' (2000). She has presented on other colorectal cancer risk factors, including microplastics, and contributes to media expertise on cancer epidemiology, prevention, and microbiology. Her work advances knowledge of diagnostic pathways, quality of life in early-onset colorectal cancer, and the microbiome's role in gastrointestinal health.