BoD member; SA

A/Prof Cameron Bracken completed his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Adelaide in 2005, investigating how low oxygen (hypoxia) shapes gene expression inside solid tumours. I then moved to the University of Dundee, UK, for a postdoctoral fellowship exploring how transcription and RNA splicing are coupled in cancer. Returning to Australia, I undertook a second postdoc before establishing the Gene Regulatory Networks Laboratory within the Centre for Cancer Biology, University of Adelaide.

My current research spans several interconnected themes:

• Deciphering how microRNAs regulate gene networks during Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and in neuroblastoma.

• Investigating the true functional scope of the human “microRNAome” - which may be far smaller than widely assumed.

• Understanding how microRNAs select their target genes and the critical role that the regulation of transcription factors by microRNAs play in gene networks

• Harnessing the synergistic activity of small RNAs to develop next-generation anti-cancer therapies.

I am currently a UniSA Enterprise Fellow. My research has been previously supported by fellowships from the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the Hospital Research

Foundation, and the Australian Research Council (ARC).