
Grainne O’Kane
Institute: Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute
Country: Ireland
Biography
Grainne is a Consultant Oncologist and Director of the Cancer Clinical Trials Unit, Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute. She specializes in pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancer malignancies. Grainne completed her GI/thoracic oncology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre where she then joined faculty as a Clinician Investigator and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She is PI on a number of early phase clinical trials and her translational research focuses on biomarker driven clinical trial design and integrative molecular profiling of tumours. Grainne has recently returned to Ireland and has been newly appointed to the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute, Dublin. She continues to have an associate role at Princess Margaret and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.