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Contact information


ester.hammond@oncology.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)1865 617320


Follow the Hammond Lab on Bluesky - @Hammond-lab.bsky.social

Research groups

Research Theme

Tumour Microenvironment (Lead Principal Investigator)

Websites

Ester Hammond

Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology

  • TME Research Theme lead, Department of Oncology
  • Director of the Oxford-MRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Research Summary

I investigate how tumours survive in conditions which include low oxygen (hypoxia). The goal is to target the hypoxic parts of tumours to improve cancer therapy.

Biography

Ester completed her PhD at the School for Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham then accepted a post as a postdoctoral fellow within the Molecular Oncology Group at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine before moving to the USA to join the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University, first as a postdoctoral fellow then a research associate. She joined the Department in 2007.

GROUP MEMBERS

Hala Estephan, Postdoctoral Researcher
Sophie Twigger, Postdoctoral Researcher
Katja Worth, DPhil Student
Eduard Petrosyan, DPhil Student
Chumin Zhou, Postdoctoral Researcher
Lina Hacker, Postdoctoral Researcher
Akiko Adachi, JSPS Overseas Research Fellow
Bozhena Caratti, Postdoctoral Researcher
Megan Beattie, MRes Student
Hung Lau, DPhil Student
Olivier Zanier, DPhil Student
Zhanghao Wang, MRes Student
Aysha Adam, Undergraduate Student

RECENT GROUP ALUMNI & NEXT DESTINATIONS

Louise Martin (2023-2024) Research Assistant - DPhil student University of Oxford, UK

Çağla Tosun (2020-2024) DPhil student/Postdoctoral Researcher - Postdoctoral Researcher University  of Nottingham, UK

Tiffany Ma (2018-23), DPhil student/Postdoctoral Researcher - Precision Immunomics Scientist Infinitopes, UK

Sam Bader (2016-21), DPhil student - Scientist, Totus Medicines, USA

Charlotte Simpson (2020-2021) MRes student - PhD student, University of Cambridge, UK

Natalie Ng, (2016–21), DPhil student - Scientist, Oxford Biomedica, UK

Anna Mandel, (2018-20), MRes student - PhD student, University of Toronto, Canada

Ania Skwarska, (2019-20) Postdoctoral Researcher - Postdoctoral Researcher Medical University of Bialystok, Poland

Elizabeth Bowler, (2019 -20) Postdoctoral Researcher - Postdoctoral Researcher University of Bath