Research Output per year
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Research Focus:
Our lab has focussed on cancer biology to bring clinical impact.
To this end we have developed a translational network of labs and clinics across Adelaide, Australia and the world to identify, develop, translate and then validate new approaches to preventing and treating gastrointestinal cancer, particularly colorectal and gastric cancer. Our laboratory is based at SAHMRI, but we collect tissues and perform human studies across every major metropolitan public hospital in South Australia as well as St Andrews private hospital. We have established two biotech companies, and collaborate with researchers from Columbia University, Oxford University, Melbourne University and University of Queensland.
Our major projects at the moment are:
1. Engineering probiotics to detect and prevent colorectal cancer.
2. Identifying new therapeutic targets in the colorectal cancer stroma.
3. Developing new prevention and treatment for patients with an inherited form of gastric cancer, GAPPS.
4. Studying human tumour organoids to better personalise therapy in cancer.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Doctor of Medicine , University of Queensland
2007 → 2010
MB BS (Honours), University of Adelaide
… → 1999
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Research Output 2001 2019
Alpha-Blockers as colorectal cancer chemopreventive: Findings from a case-control study, human cell cultures, and in vivo preclinical testing
Suzuki, N., Niikura, R., Ihara, S., Hikiba, Y., Kinoshita, H., Higashishima, N., Hayakawa, Y., Yamada, A., Hirata, Y., Nakata, R., Okamoto, M., Sano, M., Kushiyama, A., Ichinose, M., Woods, S. L., Worthley, D., Iwamoto, Y. & Koike, K., 1 Mar 2019, In : Cancer Prevention Research. 12, 3, p. 185-194 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Cancer-associated fibroblasts—heroes or villains?
Gieniec, K. A., Butler, L., Worthley, D. & Woods, S. L., 13 Aug 2019, In : British Journal of Cancer. 121, 4, p. 293-302 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
6
Citations
(Scopus)
Cancer-associated fibroblasts in gastrointestinal cancer
Kobayashi, H., Enomoto, A., Woods, S. L., Burt, A. D., Takahashi, M. & Worthley, D., 1 May 2019, In : Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 16, 5, p. 282-295 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
4
Citations
(Scopus)
Genetic editing of colonic organoids provides a molecularly distinct and orthotopic preclinical model of serrated carcinogenesis
Lannagan, T. R. M., Lee, Y. K., Wang, T., Roper, J., Bettington, M. L., Fennell, L., Vrbanac, L., Jonavicius, L., Somashekar, R., Gieniec, K., Yang, M., Ng, J. Q., Suzuki, N., Ichinose, M., Wright, J. A., Kobayashi, H., Putoczki, T. L., Hayakawa, Y., Leedham, S. J., Abud, H. E. & 10 others, 1 Apr 2019, In : Gut. 68, 4, p. 684-692 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Pre-diagnostic colonoscopies reduce cancer mortality - Results from linked population-based data in South Australia
Li, M., Olver, I., Keefe, D., Holden, C., Worthley, D., Price, T., Karapetis, C., Miller, C., Powell, K., Buranyi-Trevarton, D., Fusco, K. & Roder, D., 29 Aug 2019, In : BMC Cancer. 19, 1, 856.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article