Fiona Cameron Profile

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Awards/Honours
• Grants/Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Professional Association
• Contact Details

Biography

Dr Fiona Cameron is the Associate Director, Innovation at UWS Innovation located at Parramatta. Fiona is working closely with academics, active researchers and the University Research Office to identify opportunities to protect, develop and commercialise Intellectual Property (IP) generated within UWS.

Since starting at UWS in 2008, Fiona has built an Innovation team which has actively been building IP awareness within the University. Significant steps forward in IP support have been the introduction of UWS Laboratory Notebooks, and the establishment of the UWS IP Evaluation Panel.

Fiona and the team are also working closely with College and Research Office staff to offer post graduate research students the basic building blocks of Intellectual Property knowledge which will support them in their project work and future working life.

Previously a Principal Research Scientist from the CSIRO Division of Molecular Science, Fiona was a member of the executive team of the CSIRO National Research Food Futures Flagship until 2007 where she was able to make a significant contribution to the early growth phase and development of the new Flagship launched in early 2004.

Fiona was also a key developer of the CSIRO Nanotechnology Centre as Executive Officer and actively built and supported a CSIRO and partner-wide national nanotechnology community. This included running annual CSIRO workshops for Nanotechnologists and partnering with UTS to develop exhibits for national and international conferences.

Fiona was active in gene control research and the need to formulate better ways of delivering genetic material into cells. In CSIRO's Division of Molecular Science, a suite of gene delivery molecules was developed that gave better control over the delivery of nucleic acids into cells.
Being heavily involved in commercially funded medical research, Fiona’s most recent publications take the form of a suite of patents rather than scientific journal articles and are listed below.

Fiona originally trained at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University.

She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1990 from Macquarie University having studied the regulation of gene control using engineered ribonucleic acids.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

Intellectual property, Gene Therapy and delivery, Molecular Biology

Awards/Honours

Vice Chancellors Award 2009 - Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Highly Commended - Team (Leader)

Vice Chancellors Award 2010 - Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Winner - Team (Leader) 

Grants/Current Projects

Development of Intellectual Property awareness at UWS and commercialisation of arising IP opportunities.

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Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Recent research publication:
2007 - Gerald W. Both, Fiona Cameron, Anne Collins, Linda Lockett and Jan Shaw. Production and Release Testing of Ovine Atadenovirus Vectors. Adenovirus Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Medicine. Vol. 130, pp69-90.

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Patents

Composition for the preservation of viruses
K Setiawan; FH Cameron.
US Patent 7,091,030
01/01/2006.

A composition and method for killing of tumours
TJ Lockett; PL Molloy; FH Cameron; PJ Russell;
EP Patent 1,494,705
01/01/2005.

Delivery of DSRNA to Arthropods
S Whyard; FH Cameron; M Moghaddam; TJ Lockett.
EP Patent 1,414,959
01/01/2004

Delivery of Nucleic Acids
R. Whittaker; FH Cameron; V Bender; M Moggadham; PA.
EP Patent 0,777,679
01/01/2003.

Hammerhand ribozymes
JP Haseloff; WL Gerlach; PA Jennings; FH Cameron.
US Patent 5,840,874
01/01/1998.

Ribozymes
JP Haseloff; WL Gerlach; PA Jennings; FH Cameron.
US Patent 5,254,678
01/01/1993.

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Professional Association

Member Knowledge Commercialisation Australia

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