Asst. Prof. Cara Martin
Assistant Professor in Molecular Pathology, Tumour Biology and Cancer Screening
- Research Institute:
Department of Histopathology, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI)
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- Research Area(s):
Human Papilloma virus,Cancer Screening, Vaccination, Cancer Prevention, Biomarkers, Digital Cytology, RAMAN Spectroscopy.
Research Description:
Dr. Martins research programme consists of translational health services based research and basic research approaches in female gynecological cancers, head and neck cancers and other HPV associated cancers. She is co-founder, lead investigator and programme manager of CERVIVA, The Irish Cervical Screening Research Consortium (www.cerviva.ie), which is a health services based research program Cara leads the molecular epidemiology work packages within the various CERVIVA projects and is leading the HPV primary screening pilot study and the ECHO Study - Epidemiology of HPV in Oral Cancers in Ireland.
