# The University of the West Indies, Mona

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## TL;DR

The Jamaican campus of the regional University of the West Indies, with a Faculty of Medical Sciences, and a site for a cancer trial run in Jamaica and Barbados.

## Summary

UWI Mona is the Jamaican campus of the University of the West Indies, with a Faculty of Medical Sciences that held its 32nd annual research conference in November 2026. ClinicalTrials.gov lists The University of the West Indies, Mona as a site of NCT07528768 (HEADWATERS), a planned phase 2 trial of gemcitabine against paclitaxel for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer in women of African ancestry, alongside the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados. Coordinates are Nominatim's.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: UWI Mona; University of the West Indies Mona campus
- City: Kingston, JM
- Type: university
- Website: https://www.mona.uwi.edu

## Sources

- UWI Mona: home page: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/
- ClinicalTrials.gov NCT07528768 (site list): https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07528768

## Connected records

- institutions: [National Health Fund (Jamaica)](https://onco.cc/institutions/nhf-jamaica/), [The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Barbados)](https://onco.cc/institutions/qeh-barbados/)
- trials: [HEADWATERS: Gemcitabine vs Paclitaxel in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in Women of African Ancestry.](https://onco.cc/trials/nct07528768/)

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