Dr. Karam MD, PhD is the Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chair of the department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She specializes in the treatment of head and neck and pancreatic cancer.
As a physician-scientist, her laboratory focuses on understanding mechanisms of response and resistance to radiation through the lens of the tumor immune micro- and macroenvironment. Dr. Karam runs several investigator-initiated trials aimed at combining radiation with immunotherapy to improve therapeutic response.
Translational endpoints from these trials are analyzed at the bench in real time for biomarker discovery and development of future therapeutics.
