Biography
Chenka Ma is a research scientist in Health and Biosecurity. He joined CSIRO as a Research Plus CERC and worked on the project of identifying new biomarkers for metabolic disease. After this Fellowship, he was promoted as a research scientist.
His expertise is in bioinformatic analysis, including genetic and epigenetics for human diseases (cancer, acute infection and chronic diseases), metagenomic and transcriptome including single cell RNA sequencing along with Machine Learning/ AI models for host-pathogen interactions and AI for Virtual Cell (AIVC). He has extensive knowledge for molecular biology, cell biology, cancer biology, human genetics, disease modelling and metagenomics.
He led the translation of a new diagnostic assay for burn patients in children and is the Immune Resilience FSP Co-project leader of investigating T cell exhaustion on ex vivo models.
As an ECR, he has published more than 25 peer-reviewed papers (including 5 first author and two senior author publication) and has an H-index of 16.
Academic Qualifications
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2011
MBBS
Shanghai Jiao Tong University -
2020
PhD
University of Melbourne
Achievements and Awards
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2021-2021
Outstanding Collaboration Award CSIRO Health & Biosecurity
CSIRO
Current Roles
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Research Scientist
Biomarker Discovery and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) development
Professional Experiences
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2018-2021
CERC Postdoctoral Fellow
CSIRO
ORCID 0000-0003-2172-7332