Dr Seth Cheetham

HERA - Senior Research Fellow

Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Overview

Dr Seth Cheetham is an ARC Discovery Early Career Award Fellow and group leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. He is also the Deputy Director of the BASE facility, Australia's leading mRNA manufacturing hub. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, supported by the Herchel Smith Research Studentship. Seth is a molecular biologist and geneticist with a focus on mRNA drugs, synthetic biology and epigenetics. He has authored 22 publications, including twelve as a first author and four as a corresponding author. He has published in some of the most influential molecular biology journals including Science, Molecular Cell, Nature Reviews Genetics , Genome Biology and Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. His work has attracted > $10M in funding from an ARC DECRA (2022), NHMRC Fellowship (2019), MRFF grants, UQ HERA Grant, a Cancer Australia Grant (2021), Mater Foundation seeding grant (2019), a UQ ECR grant (2019) and the UQ Genome Innovation Hub (2020). In 2021 Seth was awarded the Genetics Society of Australasia Alan Wilton ECR awarded for his research in the field of RNA and epigenetics.

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Available Projects

  • mRNA vaccines and therapeutics are rapidly emerging technologies with enormous potential to improve human health. The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are credited with saving millions of lives throughout the pandemic and mRNA vaccine candidates have demonstrated the capacity to protect against various infectious diseases and cancer. mRNA-based gene therapies have the potential to alleviate a myriad of chronic diseases. This project will develop novel technologies to improve mRNA vaccines and therapeutics to achieve cell-type specific expression and enhance stability.

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Publications

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Book Chapter

  • Cheetham, Seth W. and Brand, Andrea H. (2020). Mapping RNA-Chromatin interactions in vivo with RNA-DamID. RNA-Chromatin Interactions. (pp. 255-264) edited by Ulf Andersson Vang Ørom. New York, NY, United States: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0680-3_18

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Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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Completed Supervision

Possible Research Projects

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  • mRNA vaccines and therapeutics are rapidly emerging technologies with enormous potential to improve human health. The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are credited with saving millions of lives throughout the pandemic and mRNA vaccine candidates have demonstrated the capacity to protect against various infectious diseases and cancer. mRNA-based gene therapies have the potential to alleviate a myriad of chronic diseases. This project will develop novel technologies to improve mRNA vaccines and therapeutics to achieve cell-type specific expression and enhance stability.