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I am a Laboratory Head in the Personalised Oncology Division at WEHI, studying the impact of climate change upon respiratory health, including lung cancers.

I completed my PhD and postdoctoral studies at WEHI with Prof Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat and Prof Daniel Gray, supported by a Lung Foundation Australia Early Career Fellowship and Cure Cancer/Cancer Australia project grant. I was then awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie/European Respiratory Society Postdoctoral Fellowship to join the laboratory of Prof Charles Swanton at the Francis Crick Institute in London, before returning to WEHI to start my laboratory.

My team researches the mechanisms regulating lung epithelial stem cell fates in response to the inhaled environment, with the aim of designing new early detection and intervention strategies for respiratory diseases.

Publications

Selected publications from Dr Clare Weeden

Weeden CE, Gayevskiy V, Marceaux C, Batey D, Tan T, Yokote K, Ribera NT, Clatch A, Christo S, Teh CE, Mitchell AJ, Trussart M, Rankin L, Obers A, McDonald JA, Sutherland KD, Sharma VJ, Starkey G, D’Costa R, Antippa P, Leong T, Steinfort D, Irving L, Swanton C, Gordon CL, Mackay LK, Speed TP, Gray DHD, Asselin-Labat M-L. Early immune pressure initiated by tissue-resident memory T cells sculpts tumor evolution in non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer Cell. 2023;41(5):10.1016/j.ccell.2023.03.019

Hill W, Lim EL, Weeden CE, Lee C, Augustine M, Chen K, Kuan F-C, Marongiu F, Evans EJ, Moore DA, Rodrigues FS, Pich O, Bakker B, Cha H, Myers R, van Maldegem F, Boumelha J, Veeriah S, Rowan A, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Karasaki T, Sivakumar M, De S, Caswell DR, Nagano A, Black JRM, Martínez-Ruiz C, Ryu MH, Huff RD, Li S, Favé M-J, Magness A, Suárez-Bonnet A, Priestnall SL, Lüchtenborg M, Lavelle K, Pethick J, Hardy S, McRonald FE, Lin M-H, Troccoli CI, Ghosh M, Miller YE, Merrick DT, Keith RL, Al Bakir M, Bailey C, Hill MS, Saal LH, Chen Y, George AM, Abbosh C, Kanu N, Lee S-H, McGranahan N, Berg CD, Sasieni P, Houlston R, Turnbull C, Lam S, Awadalla P, Grönroos E, Downward J, Jacks T, Carlsten C, Malanchi I, Hackshaw A, Litchfield K, DeGregori J, Jamal-Hanjani M, Swanton C. Lung adenocarcinoma promotion by air pollutants. Nature. 2023;616(7955):10.1038/s41586-023-05874-3

Weeden CE, Chen Y, B. S, Hu Y, Ramm G, Sutherland KD, Smyth GK, Asselin-Labat M-L. Lung Basal Stem Cells Rapidly Repair DNA Damage Using the Error-Prone Nonhomologous End-Joining Pathway. PLOS Biology. 2017;15(1):10.1371/journal.pbio.2000731

Kanu N, Gimeno-Valiente F, Castignani C, Cadieux EL, Mensah N, Liu X, Chervova O, Weeden CE, Richard C, Martinez-Ruiz C, Usaite I, Stavrou G, Deniz Ö, Jamal-Hanjani M, McGranahan N, Beck S, Demeulemeester J, Tanic M, Swanton C, van Loo P. 121P DNA methylation co-operates with genomic alterations during non-small cell lung cancer evolution. ESMO Open. 2024;9:10.1016/j.esmoop.2024.103860

Coggan H, Weeden CE, Pearce P, Dalwadi MP, Magness A, Swanton C, Page KM. An agent-based modelling framework to study growth mechanisms in EGFR-L858R mutant cell alveolar type II cells. Royal Society Open Science. 2024;11(7):10.1098/rsos.240413

Hill W, Weeden CE, Swanton C. Tumor Promoters and Opportunities for Molecular Cancer Prevention.Cancer Discovery. 2024;14(7):10.1158/2159-8290.cd-24-0128

Evans EJ, Lim E, Marongiu F, Chia SB, Hill W, Weeden C, Pich O, Rowan A, Jabbar F, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Veeriah R, Ghosh M, Merrick D, Miller YE, Keith R, Jamal-Hanjani M, Swanton C, DeGregori JV. Abstract SY36-01: Somatic evolution, cancer, and our inevitable decline with age: Inextricably linked. Cancer Research. 2024;84(7_Supplement):10.1158/1538-7445.am2024-sy36-01

Caswell DR, Gui P, Mayekar MK, Law EK, Pich O, Bailey C, Boumelha J, Kerr DL, Blakely CM, Manabe T, Martinez-Ruiz C, Bakker B, De Dios Palomino Villcas J, I. Vokes N, Dietzen M, Angelova M, Gini B, Tamaki W, Allegakoen P, Wu W, Humpton TJ, Hill W, Tomaschko M, Lu W-T, Haderk F, Al Bakir M, Nagano A, Gimeno-Valiente F, de Carné Trécesson S, Vendramin R, Barbè V, Mugabo M, Weeden CE, Rowan A, McCoach CE, Almeida B, Green M, Gomez C, Nanjo S, Barbosa D, Moore C, Przewrocka J, Black JRM, Grönroos E, Suarez-Bonnet A, Priestnall SL, Zverev C, Lighterness S, Cormack J, Olivas V, Cech L, Andrews T, Rule B, Jiao Y, Zhang X, Ashford P, Durfee C, Venkatesan S, Temiz NA, Tan L, Larson LK, Argyris PP, Brown WL, Yu EA, Rotow JK, Guha U, Roper N, Yu J, Vogel RI, Thomas NJ, Marra A, Selenica P, Yu H, Bakhoum SF, Chew SK, Reis-Filho JS, Jamal-Hanjani M, Vousden KH, McGranahan N, Van Allen EM, Kanu N, Harris RS, Downward J, Bivona TG, Swanton C. The role of APOBEC3B in lung tumor evolution and targeted cancer therapy resistance. Nature Genetics. 2024;56(1):10.1038/s41588-023-01592-8

Malchers F, Nogova L, van Attekum MH, Maas L, Brägelmann J, Bartenhagen C, Girard L, Bosco G, Dahmen I, Michels S, Weeden CE, Scheel AH, Meder L, Golfmann K, Schuldt P, Siemanowski J, Rehker J, Merkelbach-Bruse S, Menon R, Gautschi O, Heuckmann JM, Brambilla E, Asselin-Labat M-L, Persigehl T, Minna JD, Walczak H, Ullrich RT, Fischer M, Reinhardt HC, Wolf J, Büttner R, Peifer M, George J, Thomas RK. Somatic rearrangements causing oncogenic ectodomain deletions of FGFR1 in squamous cell lung cancer. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2023;133(21):10.1172/jci170217

Rane JK, Frankell AM, Weeden CE, Swanton C. Clonal evolution in healthy and premalignant tissues: implications for early cancer interception strategies. Cancer Prevention Research. 2023;16(7):10.1158/1940-6207.capr-22-0469

Weeden CE, Hill W, Lim EL, Grönroos E, Swanton C. Impact of risk factors on early cancer evolution. Cell. 2023;186(8):10.1016/j.cell.2023.03.013

Coggan HM, Weeden CE, Dalwadi M, Swanton C, Pearce P, Page KM. Abstract 861: Modelling the role of EGFR mutation in the initiation of never-smoker lung cancer. Cancer Research. 2023;83(7_Supplement):10.1158/1538-7445.am2023-861

Lim E, Hill W, Lee C, Weeden CE, Augustine M, Chen K, Kuan FC, Marongiu F, Evans E, Moore D, Ryu MH, Luchtenborg M, Lavelle K, Carlsten C, Malanchi I, Hackshaw A, Litchfield KR, Degregori J, Jamal-Hanjani M, Swanton C. 1MO Air pollution-induced non-small cell lung cancer: Towards molecular cancer prevention. Annals of Oncology. 2022;33:10.1016/j.annonc.2022.09.002

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