Full professor
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
Faculty of Medicine

Caroline Diorio holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology (2005). Following her postdoctoral studies in bioinformatics and molecular oncology (2005–2008), she established her research laboratory at the Saint-Sacrement Hospital of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center, where she is responsible for banking breast cancer samples for the Tissue Bank and Data Axis of the Cancer Research Network. From 2011 to 2020, she held Salary Awards from the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (Young Investigator and Development) and the Quebec Health Research Fund (Junior II and Senior). Since 2019, she has been a full professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Laval University. Prof. Diorio is also part of the Breast Disease Research Group at the CHU de Québec-Université Laval.

Her most recent research aims for a personalized approach to breast cancer prevention and treatment. On one hand, her work aims to understand how lifestyle habits can influence the onset, progression, and treatment of breast cancer with the goal of developing personalized prevention and treatment strategies for this cancer. Among lifestyle habits, she is particularly interested in obesity, physical activity, and nutrition. On the other hand, the core of her work focuses on identifying molecular markers of breast cancer risk and prognosis that can be modulated by changes in lifestyle habits or targeted by preventive and therapeutic agents. She studies inflammatory, hormonal, metabolic, genetic, and epigenetic markers in blood and various components of breast tissue, as well as in breast lesions of varying severity. Her laboratory is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Cancer Research Society, the Canadian Cancer Society, the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation, and the Quebec Health Research Fund, among others.