Craig E. Cameron is the Jeffery Houpt Distinguished Investigator, Professor, and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Howard University in 1987. Following doctoral studies in biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and post-doctoral studies in the chemistry department at Penn State, Cameron joined the faculty of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State in 1997. He was tenured, promoted to the rank of associate professor and appointed Louis Martarano Associate Professor in 2002. In 2005, he was promoted to the rank of professor and named the Paul Berg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. From 2011-2012, Cameron served a two-year term as Associate Head for Research and Graduate Education. In 2013, he was named holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Cameron moved to his current position in Chapel Hill in the fall of 2019. Cameron’s research focuses on the enzymology and cell biology of genome replication in positive-strand RNA viruses. The goal of this work is development of novel strategies to treat and/or prevent viral infections. During his career, Dr. Cameron has received several honors, including the Howard Temin Award from the National Cancer Institute, an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, a Distinguished Service Award from the Eberly College of Science Alumni Association, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Cameron is a former president of the American Society for Virology and currently serves as an associate editor for Journal of Biological Chemistry and a deputy editor for Science Advances.
