1. Targeting DNA repair in anti-cancer treatmentsThomas Helleday
2. The DNA damage response: roles in cancer etiology and treatmentLaura Butler, Oren Gilad and Eric J. Brown

3. Control of DNA Replication by ATREmilio Lecona, Oscar Fernández-Capetillo
4. Targeting ATR for cancer therapy: Profile & expectations for ATR inhibitorsNicola J Curtin and John R Pollard
5. Targeting ATR for cancer therapy: ATR-targeted drug candidatesMagnus T. Dillon and Kevin J. Harrington
6. ATM: its recruitment, activation, signalling and contribution to tumour suppressionAtsushi Shibata and Penny Jeggo
7. Pre-clinical profile and expectations for pharmacological ATM inhibitionAnika Maria Weber & Anderson Joseph Ryan
8. Targeting ATM for cancer therapy: Prospects for drugging ATMIan Hickson, Kurt G. Pike & Stephen Durant
9. Targeting Chk1 for cancer therapy: rationale, progress and prospectsDavid A Gillespie
10. Preclinical profiles and contexts for CHK1 and CHK2 inhibitorsIan Collins and Michelle D. Garrett

11. Clinical development of CHK1 inhibitorsA Ingles Garces and U Banerji
12. Established and emerging roles of the DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs)Edward J. Bartlett and Susan P. Lees-Miller

13. Targeting DNA-PK as a therapeutic approach in oncologyCeline Cano, Suzannah J. Harnor, Elaine Willmore and Stephen R. Wedge
14. Dbait: a new concept of DNA repair pathways inhibitor from bench to bedsideMarie Dutreix, Flavien Devun, Nirmitha Herath, Patricia Noguiez-Hellin
15. Alternative Non Homologous End-joining: Mechanisms and Targeting Strategies in CancerPratik Nagaria and Feyruz V. Rassool
About the Author:

John Pollard is Vice President, Principal Research Fellow and Head of Biological Sciences at Vertex Pharmaceuticals' UK research site. John joined Vertex in 1999 following a PhD at Southampton University and Postdoctoral positions at St. Andrews and Birmingham Universities in bioorganic chemistry. During his tenure at Vertex, John has led a series of oncology research and development projects across cell cycle control, survival and growth, and most recently DNA damage, which together have yielded multiple clinical candidates. John has served as global research lead for Vertex's oncology effort and led numerous collaborations with academic groups and pharma companies.

Nicola Curtin is Professor of Experimental Cancer Therapeutics at Newcastle University, UK. After obtaining her Ph.D. in hepatocarcinogenesis from the University of Surrey she started working at Newcastle University, initially exploring novel therapies for liver cancer, then the cytotoxic mechanisms of novel antifolates and the role of nucleoside transport. Prof Curtin was a founding member of the Newcastle Anticancer Drug Discovery Initiative and contributed to the development of PARP inhibitors, including the identification of their synthetic lethality in cells lacking homologous recombination function. Her work focusses on the DNA damage response in general and she has also worked on the preclinical development of ATM, ATR and DNA-PK inhibitors for the treatment of cancer. In addition, she undertakes translational studies to identify pharmacodynamic biomarkers and those predictive of response to DDR-inhibitor therapy in cultured cells and patient material. She's also the co-editor of PARP Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy in this series.