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Ester M. Hammond is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus also in Medicine. Their work is mainly situated within key subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Materials Chemistry, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Oncology.

The scientist's main research topics include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism, RNA modifications and cancer, DNA Repair Mechanisms, Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, Protein Degradation and Inhibitors, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Frequently publishing in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of the American Chemical Society, Cancer Research, Nucleic Acids Research, and Frontiers in Oncology, Ester M. Hammond has contributed notably to several studies. Some recent papers include:

  • "Ultra-High Dose Rate (FLASH) Radiotherapy: Silver Bullet or Fool's Gold?", 2020, Frontiers in Oncology
  • "Cyclic Hypoxia: An Update on Its Characteristics, Methods to Measure It and Biological Implications in Cancer", 2020, Cancers
  • "Selective modulation by PARP-1 of HIF-1α-recruitment to chromatin during hypoxia is required for tumor adaptation to hypoxic conditions", 2021, Redox Biology
  • "Hypoxia inducible factors regulate hepatitis B virus replication by activating the basal core promoter", 2021, Journal of Hepatology
  • "Links between the unfolded protein response and the DNA damage response in hypoxia: a systematic review", 2021, Biochemical Society Transactions

Ester M. Hammond has collaborated extensively with co-authors such as Stuart J. Conway, Hannah R. Bolland, Geoff S. Higgins, Anna Skwarska, and Adam C. Sedgwick.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • XBP1 Is Essential for Survival under Hypoxic Conditions and Is Required for Tumor Growth

    Lorenzo Romero-Ramirez;Hongbin Cao;Daniel Nelson;Ester Hammond

  • Regulation of p53 by hypoxia: dissociation of transcriptional repression and apoptosis from p53-dependent transactivation.

    Constantinos Koumenis;Rodolfo Alarcon;Ester Hammond;Patrick Sutphin

  • Targeting ATR in vivo using the novel inhibitor VE-822 results in selective sensitization of pancreatic tumors to radiation

    E Fokas;R Prevo;J R Pollard;P M Reaper

  • Regulation of autophagy by ATF4 in response to severe hypoxia.

    T Rzymski;M Milani;L Pike;F Buffa

  • Hypoxia links ATR and p53 through replication arrest.

    Ester M. Hammond;Nicholas C. Denko;Mary Jo Dorie;Robert T. Abraham

  • Ultra-High Dose Rate (FLASH) Radiotherapy: Silver Bullet or Fool's Gold?

    Joseph D. Wilson;Ester M. Hammond;Geoff S. Higgins;Kristoffer Petersson

  • ATR/ATM Targets Are Phosphorylated by ATR in Response to Hypoxia and ATM in Response to Reoxygenation

    Ester M. Hammond;Mary Jo Dorie;Amato J. Giaccia

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Contextual Synthetic Lethality of Cancer Cell Kill Based on the Tumor Microenvironment

    Norman Chan;Isabel M. Pires;Zuzana Bencokova;Carla Coackley

  • The role of p53 in hypoxia-induced apoptosis.

    Ester M. Hammond;Amato J. Giaccia

  • ATM Activation and Signaling under Hypoxic Conditions

    Zuzana Bencokova;Muriel R. Kaufmann;Isabel M. Pires;Philip S. Lecane

  • Targeting ATR in DNA damage response and cancer therapeutics

    Emmanouil Fokas;Emmanouil Fokas;Remko Prevo;Ester M. Hammond;Thomas B. Brunner;Thomas B. Brunner

  • The meaning, measurement and modification of hypoxia in the laboratory and the clinic.

    E M Hammond;Marie-Claude Asselin;D Forster;James P B O'Connor

  • Effects of Acute versus Chronic Hypoxia on DNA Damage Responses and Genomic Instability

    Isabel M. Pires;Zuzana Bencokova;Manuela Milani;Lisa K. Folkes

  • The anti-malarial atovaquone increases radiosensitivity by alleviating tumour hypoxia.

    Thomas M. Ashton;Emmanouil Fokas;Leoni A. Kunz-Schughart;Leoni A. Kunz-Schughart;Lisa K. Folkes

  • UCHL1 provides diagnostic and antimetastatic strategies due to its deubiquitinating effect on HIF-1α

    Yoko Goto;Lihua Zeng;Chan Joo Yeom;Yuxi Zhu

  • Targeting radiation-resistant hypoxic tumour cells through ATR inhibition

    I M Pires;M M Olcina;S Anbalagan;J R Pollard

  • XBP1 is essential for survival under hypoxic conditions and is required for tumor growth

    L. Romero;H. Cao;E. Hammond;A.J. Giaccia

Frequent Co-Authors

Amato J. Giaccia
Amato J. Giaccia Stanford University
adrian l harris
adrian l harris University of Oxford
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Ruth J. Muschel
Ruth J. Muschel University of Oxford
Thomas Brunner
Thomas Brunner University of Konstanz
Constantinos Koumenis
Constantinos Koumenis University of Pennsylvania
Leonidas C. Platanias
Leonidas C. Platanias Northwestern University
Hsing Jien Kung
Hsing Jien Kung Taipei Medical University
Maurizio Molinari
Maurizio Molinari Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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