Adjunct Associate Professor Vickers is the Director of Research at Clinical Stem Cells. His formal training was in embryonic stem cells at the Stemcore Facility, University of Queensland. Other research expertise is in analytical and peptide chemistry, mass spectrometry and bioactive molecules in herbal medicine. Dr Vickers is involved in translation from laboratory to clinic.

He is a Maxillofacial Surgeon, Pain Specialist and Herbal Medicine. Dr Vickers has published 1 book, 6 book chapters and 32 peer reviewed research papers and clinical reports. His group in 2014 published the first proof of concept study for the use of stem cells in humans to treat neurological pain. His PhD was in the molecular chemistry of peptides in pain mechanisms and has Masters degrees in Surgery and Medicine.