Caroline Cameron wins the Genome BC Award for Scientific Excellence

Microbiologist Caroline Cameron has received the Genome BC Award for Scientific Excellence, as part of the 2019 LifeSciences BC Awards, for her work using advanced technologies to study the pathogen that causes syphilis.

Cameron is one of the world’s leading experts on this sexually- and vertically-transmitted infection that has seen an alarming global resurgence in recent years, including within B.C.

The Cameron Lab is one of only a few labs in the world, and the only lab in Canada, that is working to understand the basic science of the pathogen that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum. In the lab, Cameron and her trainees focus on the development of novel vaccine candidates and diagnostic tests for syphilis.