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Hannah Carter is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans several fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on molecular biology, immunology, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and cancer research.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics related to cancer biology and immune responses. Their main topics include immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, cancer genomics and diagnostics, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, prostate cancer treatment and research, RNA modifications and cancer, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Strength of immune selection in tumors varies with sex and age, 2020, Nature Communications
  • IRE1α regulates macrophage polarization, PD-L1 expression, and tumor survival, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • MHC-I genotype and tumor mutational burden predict response to immunotherapy, 2020, Genome Medicine
  • Activation of NF-κB and p300/CBP potentiates cancer chemoimmunotherapy through induction of MHC-I antigen presentation, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Meghana S. Pagadala
  • Maurizio Zanetti
  • Andrea Castro
  • Brent S. Rose
  • Richard L. Hauger

Their work is frequently published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Nature Communications
  • The Journal of Immunology

Best Publications

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

  • An Integrated Genomic Analysis of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme

    D. Williams Parsons;Siân Jones;Xiaosong Zhang;Jimmy Cheng-Ho Lin

  • Core Signaling Pathways in Human Pancreatic Cancers Revealed by Global Genomic Analyses

    Siân Jones;Xiaosong Zhang;D. Williams Parsons;D. Williams Parsons;Jimmy Cheng Ho Lin

  • MODBASE, a database of annotated comparative protein structure models, and associated resources

    Ursula Pieper;Narayanan Eswar;Ben M. Webb;David Eramian;David Eramian

  • Accumulation of driver and passenger mutations during tumor progression

    Ivana Bozic;Tibor Antal;Tibor Antal;Hisashi Ohtsuki;Hannah Carter

  • Network based stratification of tumor mutations

    Trey Ideker;Matan Hofree;John Paul Shen

  • The Genetic Landscape of the Childhood Cancer Medulloblastoma

    D. Williams Parsons;D. Williams Parsons;Meng Li;Xiaosong Zhang;Siân Jones

  • Circulating tumour DNA methylation markers for diagnosis and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

    Rui Hua Xu;Wei Wei;Wei Wei;Michal Krawczyk;Wenqiu Wang

  • Whole-exome sequencing of neoplastic cysts of the pancreas reveals recurrent mutations in components of ubiquitin-dependent pathways

    Jian Wu;Yuchen Jiao;Marco Dal Molin;Anirban Maitra

  • Cancer-Specific High-Throughput Annotation of Somatic Mutations: Computational Prediction of Driver Missense Mutations

    Hannah Carter;Sining Chen;Leyla Isik;Svitlana Tyekucheva

  • Identifying Mendelian disease genes with the Variant Effect Scoring Tool

    Hannah Carter;Christopher Douville;Peter D. Stenson;David Neil Cooper

  • Hybrid Periportal Hepatocytes Regenerate the Injured Liver without Giving Rise to Cancer.

    Joan Font-Burgada;Shabnam Shalapour;Suvasini Ramaswamy;Brian Hsueh

  • MHC-1 Genotypes Restricts The Oncogenic Mutational Landscape

    Joan Font-Burgada;David Rossell;Hannah K. Carter;Rachel Marty

  • Whole-exome sequencing combined with functional genomics reveals novel candidate driver cancer genes in endometrial cancer

    Han Liang;Lydia W.T. Cheung;Jie Li;Zhenlin Ju

  • Epigenetic aging signatures in mice livers are slowed by dwarfism, calorie restriction and rapamycin treatment

    Tina Wang;Brian Tsui;Jason F. Kreisberg;Neil A. Robertson

  • Exploring the landscape of focal amplifications in cancer using AmpliconArchitect

    Viraj Deshpande;Jens Luebeck;Nam-Phuong D. Nguyen;Mehrdad Bakhtiari

  • Whole-genome sequencing identifies a recurrent functional synonymous mutation in melanoma

    Jared J. Gartner;Stephen C. J. Parker;Todd D. Prickett;Kenneth Adam Dutton-Regester

  • Evolutionary pressure against MHC class II binding cancer mutations

    Rachel Marty Pyke;Wesley Kurt Thompson;Rany M. Salem;Joan Font-Burgada;Joan Font-Burgada

  • Computational approaches to identify functional genetic variants in cancer genomes.

    Abel Gonzalez-Perez;Ville Mustonen;Boris Reva;Graham R. S. Ritchie

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Karchin
Rachel Karchin Johns Hopkins University
Trey Ideker
Trey Ideker University of California, San Diego
Nicholas J. Schork
Nicholas J. Schork Translational Genomics Research Institute
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University
Kenneth W. Kinzler
Kenneth W. Kinzler Johns Hopkins University
Kang Zhang
Kang Zhang Macau University of Science and Technology
Jill P. Mesirov
Jill P. Mesirov University of California, San Diego
Victor E. Velculescu
Victor E. Velculescu Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Giovanni Parmigiani
Giovanni Parmigiani Harvard University
Wesley K. Thompson
Wesley K. Thompson University of California, San Diego

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