
Cameron Simmons
veski innovation fellow
Professor Cameron Simmons returns to Victoria to work at the Nossal Institute for Global Health and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne after 10 years in Vietnam with Oxford University.
Professor Simmons took up his veski innovation fellowship in June 2012.
Stop Dengue: Novel approaches to diagnose, treat and prevent dengue
Research project description:
Dengue is a serious virus infection carried by mosquitoes in tropical countries. High fever, debilitating headaches, nausea, muscle aches, pain behind the eyes and a rash that affects large areas of the body are among the symptoms that affect approximately 40 million infants, young children and adults that are infected each year. There is currently no preventative vaccine or specific treatments to reduce the severity of symptoms.
Professor Simmons aims to help combat dengue by providing doctors with a set of simple methods to help diagnose dengue in patients, and predict if the patient is at risk of developing serious complications. This research is complementing pharmaceutical industry collaborations on the development of specific drugs to treat the disease.
Cameron aims to use his expertise and links in Asia to field test this novel disease control approach as part of the Eliminate Dengue initiative. These novel research strategies are uniquely placed to deliver results that could help reduce the huge social and financial burden of dengue both in Australia and overseas.
- Returning to Melbourne to play a key role in development of Peter Doherty Institute
- Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and a WHO recognised expert in dengue epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical trials
- His partner is a human genetics expert
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