Prof. Fumiko Esashi, Ph.D.

Prof. Fumiko Esashi is a Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford. Her primary research focus is the maintenance of genome stability through the meticulous study of DNA repair mechanisms, particularly homologous recombination (HR). Her work investigates how key HR proteins, such as BRCA2 and RAD51, are regulated to protect DNA against damage and associated with replication and transcription. A major goal of her research is to elucidate how defects in these processes lead to cancer and other human diseases. Prof. Esashi completed her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology/Cell Cycle Checkpoint Control from Kyoto University, Japan.