Dr Ankur Sharma

Laboratory Head, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research

Ankur Sharma is a Lab Head of the Onco-Fetal Ecosystem Laboratory at Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and Curtin University. Ankur’s research is directed towards exploring the similarities between fetal and tumor microenvironment. He is specifically interested in understanding the Onco-Fetal reprogramming of the tumor ecosystem.

Ankur is one of the earlier adopters of single-cell genomics to understand the evolution and ecosystem of tumors. In 2019, he was awarded the NMRC Young Investigator fellowship and in 2020, was appointed as a Research Scientist at Spatial and Single Cell Systems Domain at GIS, ASTAR. Ankur’s work led to the discovery of oncofetal reprogramming of tumor ecosystem in liver cancer (Sharma et al., Cell 2020).

At Perkins, his team is working towards uncovering similar paradigms in other solid tumors. Ankur received the best Ph.D. thesis award in 2014, GIS-clinical partnership award in 2019, ASCO Merit Award in 2019, and UBC Supervisor Award in 2019.