Karla Lee

Karla Lee received her medical degree from Trinity College Dublin in 2012 and commenced early medical training in Dublin. In 2016 she completed an MSc at the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland and moved to London to pursue academic oncology training. She is training as a medical oncologist at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London and has taken time away from this training to pursue a PhD at King’s College London. She is in the final year of her PhD and is working on a thesis investigating the impact of the gut microbiome and a number of other „omics“ on immune checkpoint inhibition for advanced melanoma. Karla hopes to combine academic and clinical work in her future career.

  • medicaloncology
  • immunotherapy
  • microbiome
  • melanoma