Carlos M. Caldas

Professor Carlos Caldas is a graduate from the University of Lisbon Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern, Dallas and Medical Oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He then completed a research fellowship at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. In 1996 he moved to Cambridge where he has directed a research group working on the genetic alterations underlying human epithelial malignancies, with a particular focus on breast cancer.

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.