Professor Professor Rosalind Eeles

Professor Ros Eeles is a leading expert in the field of cancer genetics. She runs a research programme at The ICR in the genetics of prostate cancer and the management of individuals with BRCA and other genetic mutations. She leads several large international consortia involving over 100 groups worldwide in international research and has published over 500 papers. She studied at the University of Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, and went on to train in Clinical Oncology at The Royal Marsden. Her research training was in genetic predisposition to cancer at The ICR and The University of Utah, USA, and she has a PhD in Cancer Genetics from the University of London.  Professor Eeles is accredited in Clinical Oncology with a sub-specialism in adult cancer genetics, cancer risk assessment, genetic testing for predisposition to cancer, targeted screening advice based on cancer genetic risk assessment and the application of cancer genetics to cancer care. She is a Clinical Oncologist specialising in the treatment of prostate and bladder cancers. She has sat on several genetics advisory committees, including the Department of Health Genetics Advisory Committee of England, has given evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on genomic medicine and edited a special edition of the Familial Cancer journal on delivery of cancer genetics services. She is the Royal College of Radiologists Clinical Oncology Faculty representative as a Genomics Champion for the Academy of Royal Colleges. She has given numerous invited lectures internationally. Professor Eeles is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (Clinical Oncology Faculty), and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK.

Adult cancer genetic predisposition, targeted screening and cancer genetics in relation to cancer care prostate cancer genetics.