Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - Melbourne 
Chief Investigator: Professor Wayne Phillips
Using novel in vitro culture models to investigate the role of bone morphogenic protein-4 (BMP-4) in the development of Barrett’s oesophagus
Investigator: Nick Clemons
Funding: Victorian Cancer Agency Early Career Seed grant, $50k, 1 year 2010
Investigators: Nick Clemons, Christina Fennell (RA)
Sonic Hedgehog signalling in Barrett’s Oesophagus
Investigators: Wayne Phillips, Nick Clemons, D. Neil Watkins (Monash)
Funding: NHMRC Project grant 2010-12 (various sub-projects still ongoing)
Team: Nick Clemons, Christina Fennell (also involves collaboration with David Wang, Dallas, TX – A/Prof in Rhonda Souza’s lab)
Using familial genetics to identify genes involved in the biology of Barrett’s oesophagus
Investigators: Wayne Phillips, Nick Clemons, Cuong Duong, Allison Trainer (PeterMac FCC)
Funding: CCNSW Innovator Grant 2011, $100k, 1 year (Wayne)
Team: Henry To (PROBE-NET funded PhD, currently writing up)
Role of protease-activated receptors in Barrett’s oesophagus and oesophageal adenocarcinoma
Investigators: Wayne Phillips, Nick Clemons
Funding: Unfunded
Team: Shze-Yung Koh (PhD Student currently writing up – Melbourne Research Scholarship-International)
Establishing the role of the stroma to identify putative therapeutic targets and biomarkers in Barrett’s carcinogenesis
Investigators: Nick Clemons, Wayne Phillips, Tim Underwood (Southampton, UK)
Funding: Unfunded (NHMRC Project grant application under review)
Team: Nick Clemons, Christina Fennell (RA)
Characterising a novel patient derived tumour xenograft model for oesophageal adenocarcinoma
Investigators: Nick Clemons, Wayne Phillips, Cuong Duong
Funding: Unfunded (seeking funding from PeterMac Foundation)
Team: Nick Clemons, Christina Fennell (RA), Matt Read (PhD student-surgical trainee), David Liu (PhD student – surgical trainee)
Using a patient derived tumour xenograft model to test molecular targeted therapies in oesophageal adenocarcinoma
Investigators: Nick Clemons, Wayne Phillips, Andrew Barbour, Carleen Cullinane (PeterMac), Cuong Duong
Funding: Unfunded (NHMRC Project grant application in)
Team: Nick Clemons, David Liu (PhD), Christina Fennell (RA)
Tumour initiating cells (cancer stem cells) in oesophageal adenocarcinoma
Investigators: Wayne Philips, Nick Clemons
Funding: Unfunded
Students: Matt Read (PhD)
Investigating the role of PI3K signalling in oesophageal cancer
Investigators: Wayne Phillips, Nick Clemons
Funding: Unfunded
Team: Kristyn Connelly (Masters student)