Professor Karen Cadoo

Professor Karen Cadoo is a gynecoloic medical oncologist and cancer geneticist at St. James’s Hospital (SJH) and Clinical Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin. She co-leads the inherited cancer genetics programme at SJH and the cancer prevention pillar of the Trinity St. James’s Cancer Institute.

She is a member of the Irish National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) Hereditary Cancer Advisory Group and contributed to development of the National Strategy for Genetics and Genomics and the NCCP Hereditary Cancer Model of Care. Her research is centered on drug development, inherited genetics, the interplay with tumor biology, and the potential to target these therapeutically. She has explored the role of inherited predisposition in gynecologic cancers and across multiple cancer types.

She has served as principal investigator for multiple therapeutic trials in gynecologic cancers, is co-chair of the Gynecologic Disease Specific Subgroup of Cancer Trials Ireland (CTI) and is CTI representative to ENGOT and the board of directors of the Gynecologic Intergroup. She is a recipient of the Irish Cancer Society 2021 Clinician Research Leadership Award for her research in hereditary cancer genetics. She participated in the 2023-2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Leadership Development Program and currently serves on ASCO Evidence Based Medicine Committee.