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Biography
Cameron is a Research Team Leader for CSIRO’s Health & Biosecurity Business Unit.
Based at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP), Cameron’s team investigates host-pathogen interaction to develop novel intervention strategies. Cameron’s team has particular expertise in the study of host-encoded microRNAs as biomarkers for improved detection of infection and forecasting disease severity. The team were the first to comprehensively profile microRNA responses to COVID-19 (Farr et al., 2021) and manage several large-scale biomarker studies.
Cameron’s team also studies host molecules exploited by pathogens as therapeutic targets – including fibrillarin (Deffrasnes and Marsh et al., 2016), and ILRUN – an anti-inflammatory protein that the team helped characterise and name (Ambrose et al., 2018, 2020).
Cameron’s achievements include receipt of the CSIRO Julius Career Award and the 2020 CSIRO Chairman’s medal for his support of COVID-19 vaccine development research.
Cameron completed his graduate studies at the University of Melbourne and undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School prior to joining CSIRO.
More information about the Host Response team can be found at https://research.csiro.au/hostresponse/.
Professional Areas
Fields of Research
Current Roles
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Research Team Leader
CSIRO Health & Biosecurity
Academic Qualifications
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2007
PhD
The University of Melbourne -
2003
Bachelor of Science (Honours)
The University of Melbourne
Professional Experiences
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2011-2017
Research scientist
CSIRO -
2008-2011
Post-doctoral fellow
CSIRO -
2007-2008
Post-doctoral fellow
Harvard Medical School
Achievements and Awards
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2020-2022
Chairman's Medal
CSIRO -
2020-2020
Corporate Citizen Award (Group)
CSIRO ACDP -
2017-2019
Julius Career Award
CSIRO -
2010-2010
Excellence in Young Scientists Award
CSIRO Livestock Industries
Grants
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2022-2023
Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment (DAWE) - Johne's disease diagnostics
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2022-2023
Department of Health - Australian Borrelia (led by Dr Alex Gofton (CSIRO))
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2021-2024
CSIRO MOSH FSP (led by Dr Stuart Denman (CSIRO))
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2020-2021
NZ Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) - Mycoplasma bovis diagnostics
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2020-2021
Therapeutics Innovation Australia - analysis of host-encoded microRNAs impacting SARS-CoV-2 infection
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2020-2021
Department of Health - DSCATT biomarkers
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2019-2021
NHMRC Project Grant (led by Greg Moseley (Monash University))
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2016-2018
CSIRO Probing Biosystems FSP (led by Dr Megan Dearnley (CSIRO))
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2016-2018
CSIRO-Chinese Academy of Sciences
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2012-2013
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (Hendra Virus)
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2012-2013
NHMRC Urgent Call for Research (Hendra Virus)
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2012-present
Executive committee, Victorian Infection and Immunity Network
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2012-present
Organising committee, Lorne Infection & Immunity
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2018-present
Biosecurity NZ Mycoplasma Bovis Strategic Science Advisory Group
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2017-present
Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) - CSIRO ACDP
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2021-present
Biosafety Level 4 Zoonotic Laboratory Network (BSL4ZNet) Scientific Excellence Working Group
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2013-2013
Organising committee, Australasian Virology Society (Queenstown, NZ)
Publications
ORCID 0000-0002-3395-7859
We have publications by Dr Cameron Stewart