Prof C Caldas
Director, Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit
Functional Genomics Laboratory at the Cancer Research UK
University of Cambridge
Norway
Biography
Professor Caldas holds the Chair of Cancer Medicine at the University of Cambridge since 2002. He heads the Breast Cancer Functional Genomics Laboratory at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is an Honorary Consultant Medical Oncologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Lead of the Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Co-lead of the Cancer Theme at the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, and Director of the Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit. He is Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Medical Sciences in 2004. He was elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences in 2010. He was selected as a Senior NIHR Investigator in 2012.
Research Interest
His current research focus is in the functional genomics of breast cancer and its biological and clinical implications. His main clinical interest is in breast cancer chemotherapy and novel molecularly targeted therapies. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers including in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Cell, Cancer Cell, Science Translational Medicine, PNAS, Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Genome Biology, PLoSBiology, PLoS Medicine, Lancet Oncology, Breast Cancer Research and Oncogene.
