Professor Cameron works in the field of medical and pharmaceutical materials and directs the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials in the Materials Science Department in Cambridge. Her research concerns materials that interact therapeutically with the body for musculoskeletal tissue repair, regeneration and growth control, using bioactive biodegradable composites, biodegradable polymers, tissue engineered scaffold and surface patterning. She has used ice templating techniques to enable the development of bespoke cellular environments for clinical contexts including cardiac, dental and orthopaedic repair, cancer research and diagnosis, and blood cell production. She is also interested in how drugs are delivered to the body, looking at drug polymorphism, tablet design and inhalation delivery systems.

Professor Cameron has been involved with spin out companies from her work, and is a founder director of CamRegen Ltd. In March 2021, in celebration of the significant contribution that she has made to her field, she was presented with an ‘Engineering and Physical Sciences’ Suffrage Science award.

Professor Cameron gained a degree in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Physics from Newnham College, Cambridge before joining Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She is now Senior Fellow and Director of Studies in Materials Science at Lucy Cavendish College and joint Head of Department within the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.