Director, Centre for Molecular Imaging, The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Professorial Fellow, Departments of Medicine and Radiology, University of Melbourne
Co-Chair, Translational Research Laboratory, The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,
St Andrews Place,
East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia.
Phone: (61-3) 9656 1852,
Fax: (61-3) 9656 1826
Email: rod.hicks@petermac.org
Research Interests
Rodney Hicks is the Director of The Centre for Molecular Imaging at Peter Mac, an institution which is credited for installing the first PET/CT outside Europe and North America in December 2001. The facility now has an experience of over 30,000 PET studies performed since it was established in 1996. Rodney Hicks’ group has published extensively on the clinical impact of PET in oncology with particular interest in applications in radiation oncology including treatment selection, planning and therapeutic monitoring.
The Centre for Molecular Imaging at Peter Mac established the first small animal PET imaging facility in Australia in 2002 and now operates two small animal scanners with a strong focus on translational research and drug development. The Centre for Molecular Imaging also has an active radiopharmaceutical development program supported in part by involvement in the Cooperative Research Consortium for Biomedical Imaging Development. Rodney has had a long experience is radionuclide therapy having introduced Sr-89 therapy into Australia. He has also published in the fields of cardiologic and neurological PET.
Publications
1. Michael M, Thompson M, Hicks RJ, Mitchell PL, Ellis A, Milner AD, Di Iulio J, Scott AM, Gurtler V, Hoskins JM, Clarke SJ, Tebbut NC, Foo K, Jefford M, Zalcberg JR. Relationship of hepatic functional imaging to irinotecan pharmacokinetics and genetic parameters of drug elimination. The Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006;24:4228-42352.
2. Hicks RJ. Monitoring chemotherapy and molecular targeted therapy using PET. World Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2006; 5:S302-S3053.
3. Hicks RJ, Ware RE, Lau EWF. PET/CT: will it change the way that we use CT in cancer imaging? Cancer Imaging 2006; 6:S69-S79