Associate Professor,
Innate tumor Immunology laboratory
Oxford University, England
Dr Eileen Parkes is an early phase medical oncologist and associate professor at the University of Oxford. She completed her medical oncology training and PhD at Queens University Belfast before moving to Oxford in 2019. She leads early phase studies of novel IO, including STING agonsits, and is lead for Oxford Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, focusing on translational research. Her lab team studies the tumour microenvironment of chromosomally unstable cancers, with a particular focus on cGAS-STING signalling, intending to identify novel therapeutic strategies for chromosomally unstable cancers including oesophageal adenocarcinomas.
host: Julien Faget (IRCM)