[2] In 2019, Jenkins was awarded an NHMRC Investigator Grant worth AUD $1.4 million to continue her research into the treatment of brain cancer.
[1] In March 2020, Jenkins was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in recognition of her advocacy for gender equity, Aboriginal health and education.
[12] Jenkin reports that this new approach of immunotherapy tackles white blood cells to then recognise and destroy their own cancer.
[13] Jenkins is working with the head of neurosurgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Professor Kate Drummond, in collaboration with a cross-disciplinary team of protein chemists, structural biologists and neurosurgeons, and were awarded an AUD $5 million Synergy Grant from the NHMRC to continue developing CAR T cell therapies for glioblastoma.
[14] Jenkins was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to medical science as an immunologist, to the promotion of women in STEM, and to the Indigenous community".