International Clinical Trials Day

Dr Grainne O’Kane, Director, Cancer Clinical Trials speaking about cancer trials at the International Clinical Trials Day, Public event for patients and the public, May 18^th, 2023 at St James’s Hospital

International Clinical Trials day will take place on May 20^th, 2023.  In order to mark this day St James’s Hospital are running an event for patients and the public on Thursday May 18^th with expert speakers including doctors, nurses and patient representatives about clinical trials.

Featuring in these talks will be Dr Grainne O’Kane, Consultant Oncologist and Director of the Cancer Clinical Trials Unit.   Dr O’Kane specializes in pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancer malignancies.  She 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.  Dr O’Kane 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.

The Cancer Clinical Trials Unit (CCTU) aim to provide our patients with access to new treatments that would not be available to them outside of the clinical trial setting.

The CCTU has been in operation since 2003 and over that time we have enrolled hundreds of patients onto clinical trials. We work with most of the large pharmaceutical companies as well as many cancer research groups across Europe and North America.

For more information, please see: https://www.stjames.ie/services/hope/cancerclinicaltrials/