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Overview

John A. Hickman is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of medicine, with a focus on surgery, emergency medicine, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and cancer research. Their research covers a diverse range of medical topics reflecting significant expertise in clinical and translational medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Diverticular Disease and Complications
  • Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes
  • Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods

John A. Hickman has published research in a variety of respected venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Gastroenterology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • JAMA Network Open

Recent research papers authored or co-authored by Hickman illustrate a focus on clinical medicine and oncology, including:

  • Practical strategies for delivering airway training in the COVID-19 era, 2021, British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • The European Union and personalised cancer medicine, 2021, European Journal of Cancer
  • Costs and Causes of Oncology Drug Attrition With the Example of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Receptor Inhibitors, 2023, JAMA Network Open
  • Predictive validity in drug discovery: what it is, why it matters and how to improve it, 2022, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Precision Medicine for Childhood Cancer: Current Limitations and Future Perspectives, 2024, JCO Precision Oncology

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Hickman's research environment. Frequent co-authors include Suha Abushamma, Anusha Elumalai, Maria Zulfiqar, Daniel R. Ludwig, and Anup S. Shetty, each having contributed to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Apoptotic death in epithelial cells: cleavage of DNA to 300 and/or 50 kb fragments prior to or in the absence of internucleosomal fragmentation.

    F. Oberhammer;J.W. Wilson;C. Dive;I.D. Morris

  • Functional and physical interaction between Bcl‐XL and a BH3‐like domain in Beclin‐1

    M Chiara Maiuri;Gaëtane Le Toumelin;Alfredo Criollo;Alfredo Criollo;Alfredo Criollo;Jean-Christophe Rain

  • Apoptosis induced by anticancer drugs.

    John A. Hickman

  • The MCL1 inhibitor S63845 is tolerable and effective in diverse cancer models

    András Kotschy;Zoltán Szlavik;James Murray;James Davidson

  • The role of p53 in spontaneous and radiation-induced apoptosis in the gastrointestinal tract of normal and p53-deficient mice.

    Anita J. Merritt;Christopher S. Potten;Christopher J. Kemp;John A. Hickman

  • Cell Damage-induced Conformational Changes of the Pro-Apoptotic Protein Bak In Vivo Precede the Onset of Apoptosis

    Gareth J. Griffiths;Laurence Dubrez;Clive P. Morgan;Neil A. Jones

  • Drug-target interactions: only the first step in the commitment to a programmed cell death?

    C. Dive;J. A. Hickman

  • BH3-only proteins and BH3 mimetics induce autophagy by competitively disrupting the interaction between Beclin 1 and Bcl-2/Bcl-X(L).

    Maria Chiara Maiuri;Alfredo Criollo;Ezgi Tasdemir;Jose Miguel Vicencio

  • Antitumor Activity and Pharmacokinetics in Mice of 8-Carbamoyl-3-methyl-imidazo[5,1-d]-1,2,3,5-tetrazin-4(3H)-one (CCRG 81045; M & B 39831), a Novel Drug with Potential as an Alternative to Dacarbazine

    Malcolm F. G. Stevens;John A. Hickman;Simon P. Langdon;David Chubb

  • Limits to Personalized Cancer Medicine

    Ian F. Tannock;John A. Hickman

  • Three-dimensional models of cancer for pharmacology and cancer cell biology: capturing tumor complexity in vitro/ex vivo

    John A. Hickman;Ralph Graeser;Ronald de Hoogt;Suzana Vidic

  • Differential expression of bcl-2 in intestinal epithelia. Correlation with attenuation of apoptosis in colonic crypts and the incidence of colonic neoplasia.

    Anita J Merritt;Christopher S Potten;A J Watson;D Y Loh

  • Requirement of basement membrane for the suppression of programmed cell death in mammary epithelium

    Shirley Pullan;James Wilson;Anthony Metcalfe;Gwynneth M. Edwards

  • Hypersensitivity of Human Testicular Tumors to Etoposide-induced Apoptosis Is Associated with Functional p53 and a High Bax:Bcl-2 Ratio

    Christine M. Chresta;John R. W. Masters;John A. Hickman

  • bcl-2 modulation of apoptosis induced by anticancer drugs: resistance to thymidylate stress is independent of classical resistance pathways.

    T C Fisher;A E Milner;C D Gregory;A L Jackman

  • Apoptosis and cancer chemotherapy.

    Guy Makin;John A. Hickman

  • Apoptosis in small intestinal epithelial from p53-null mice: evidence for a delayed, p53-independent G2/M-associated cell death after gamma-irradiation.

    Anita J Merritt;Terence D Allen;Christopher S Potten;John A Hickman

  • Characterization of radiation-induced apoptosis in the small intestine and its biological implications

    Christopher S Potten;A Merritt;John A Hickman;P Hall

  • Apoptosis and cancer chemotherapy

    John A Hickman;Christopher S Potten;A J Merritt;T C Fisher

  • Correlation with attenuation of apoptosis in colonic crypts and the incidence of colonic neoplasia

    Anita J. Merritt;Christopher S. Potten;Alastair J. M. Watson;Dennis Y. Loh

Frequent Co-Authors

Caroline Dive
Caroline Dive University of Manchester
Christopher S Potten
Christopher S Potten Allegheny General Hospital
Simon P. Langdon
Simon P. Langdon University of Edinburgh
Malcolm F. G. Stevens
Malcolm F. G. Stevens University of Nottingham
J. Marie Hardwick
J. Marie Hardwick Johns Hopkins University
Charles H. Streuli
Charles H. Streuli University of Manchester
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Terence D Allen
Terence D Allen University of Manchester
Christian Bailly
Christian Bailly Université Catholique de Louvain
Alfredo Criollo
Alfredo Criollo University of Chile

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