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Chemistry

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105
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Immunology

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122
Citations
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World Ranking
316
National Ranking
200

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Christopher A. Hunter is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Chemistry, with a total of 106 publications contributing to various subfields.

The main subfields of study covered by their work include Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's research focuses on several key topics such as:

  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Frequently published venues include:

  • Chemical Science
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Communications
  • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • Single-cell multi-omic and spatial profiling of human kidneys implicates the fibrotic microenvironment in kidney disease progression (2024, Nature Genetics)
  • ThX - a next-generation probe for the early detection of amyloid aggregates (2020, Chemical Science)
  • Functional group interaction profiles: a general treatment of solvent effects on non-covalent interactions (2020, Chemical Science)
  • The surface site interaction point approach to non-covalent interactions (2022, Chemical Society Reviews)
  • Water and the Cation−π Interaction (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

Christopher A. Hunter has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Andrew D. Bond
  • Diego Núñez-Villanueva
  • Timothy S. Chisholm
  • Lucia Trevisan
  • Maria Chiara Storer

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2011 and Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2008.

Best Publications

  • The nature of .pi.-.pi. interactions

    Christopher A. Hunter;Jeremy K. M. Sanders

  • IL-6 as a keystone cytokine in health and disease

    Christopher A. Hunter;Simon Arnett Jones

  • Quantifying intermolecular interactions: guidelines for the molecular recognition toolbox.

    Christopher A. Hunter

  • Meldola Lecture. The role of aromatic interactions in molecular recognition

    Christopher A. Hunter

  • Control of Effector CD8+ T Cell Function by the Transcription Factor Eomesodermin

    Erika L. Pearce;Alan C. Mullen;Gislâine A. Martins;Connie M. Krawczyk

  • Interleukin 27 negatively regulates the development of interleukin 17-producing T helper cells during chronic inflammation of the central nervous system.

    Jason S Stumhofer;Arian Laurence;Emma H Wilson;Elaine Huang

  • New IL-12-family members: IL-23 and IL-27, cytokines with divergent functions.

    Christopher A. Hunter

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Mübeccel Akdis

  • What is Cooperativity

    Christopher A. Hunter;Harry L. Anderson

  • Interleukins 27 and 6 induce STAT3-mediated T cell production of interleukin 10

    Jason S Stumhofer;Jonathan S Silver;Arian Laurence;Paige M Porrett

  • Discovery and Biology of IL-23 and IL-27: Related but Functionally Distinct Regulators of Inflammation

    Robert A. Kastelein;Christopher A. Hunter;Daniel J. Cua

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition)

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Andreas Acs

  • π-π interactions: the geometry and energetics of phenylalanine-phenylalanine interactions in proteins

    Christopher A. Hunter;Juswinder Singh;Janet M. Thornton

  • NF-κB Family of Transcription Factors: Central Regulators of Innate and Adaptive Immune Functions

    Jorge Caamaño;Christopher A. Hunter

  • Anti–IL-23 therapy inhibits multiple inflammatory pathways and ameliorates autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    Yi Chen;Claire L. Langrish;Brent Mckenzie;Barbara Joyce-Shaikh

  • Cytokine Storms: Understanding COVID-19.

    Nilam Mangalmurti;Christopher A. Hunter

  • Modulation of innate immunity by Toxoplasma gondii virulence effectors

    Christopher A. Hunter;L. David Sibley

  • Decrease of Foxp3+ Treg Cell Number and Acquisition of Effector Cell Phenotype during Lethal Infection

    Guillaume Oldenhove;Nicolas Bouladoux;Elizabeth Ea Wohlfert;Jason A. Hall;Jason A. Hall

  • Molecular Transformer: A Model for Uncertainty-Calibrated Chemical Reaction Prediction.

    Philippe Schwaller;Philippe Schwaller;Teodoro Laino;Théophile Gaudin;Peter Bolgar

  • Trafficking of immune cells in the central nervous system.

    Emma H. Wilson;Wolfgang Weninger;Christopher A. Hunter

  • The IL-27R (WSX-1) Is Required to Suppress T Cell Hyperactivity during Infection

    Alejandro Villarino;Linda Hibbert;Linda Lieberman;Emma Wilson

  • Sequence-dependent DNA Structure: The Role of Base Stacking Interactions

    Christopher A. Hunter

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Roos
David S. Roos University of Pennsylvania
Harry Adams
Harry Adams University of Sheffield
Michael D. Ward
Michael D. Ward New York University
Jeremy K. M. Sanders
Jeremy K. M. Sanders University of Cambridge
Alejandro V. Villarino
Alejandro V. Villarino National Institutes of Health
David Artis
David Artis Cornell University
Phillip Scott
Phillip Scott University of Pennsylvania
Robert A. Kastelein
Robert A. Kastelein MSD (United States)
Jorge Caamano
Jorge Caamano University of Birmingham
Wolfgang Weninger
Wolfgang Weninger Medical University of Vienna

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