Elena Castro
Spain
Elena Castro
Spain
Expert bio
Elena Castro is a Medical Oncologist at 12 de Octubre University Hospital, in Madrid Spain. Dr Castro studied Medicine and obtained a PhD from the University of Salamanca, Spain. After training in Medical Oncology, she completed a four-year Fellowship in Cancer Genetics and Prostate Cancer at the Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK. In 2013, she returned to the Spanish National Cancer Research Center in Madrid, Spain, as a Clinician Scientist in the Prostate Cancer Clinical Research Unit.
Over the past decade, Dr Castro has accumulated expertise in cancer genetics and has worked on addressing the clinical implications of genetic and genomic variants in prostate cancer. Her current research is focused on the clinical and molecular characterisation of BRCA2 mutations and other DNA repair defects in prostate cancer.
Dr Castro has received several awards for her work, including a European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Research Fellowship, four American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Merit Awards, the ESMO Best Fellowship Project Award, and a Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award. To date, Dr Castro has been actively involved in several projects to identify or validate biomarkers to optimise prostate cancer treatments, as well as having presented at many national and international meetings. Further, she has authored numerous articles in esteemed peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and European Urology. As an Oncologist, Dr Castro has acted as Principal Investigator for several clinical trials.
EM-122810 - Date of preparation: February 2023