About
Professor Sharma graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2001. He completed a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship also at UBC. He then worked as an Editor at the British Medical Journal Group, running an editorial team, before completing clinical training in Histopathology in Aberdeen.
He is currently the Clinical Director of Cellular Pathology, a Consultant Histopathologist with specialist interests in Breast Pathology, and has affiliations to both the School of Medicine and the Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine. His research interests are in the role of energy metabolism in disease, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes, in the development of new biotechnologies for predicting tumour progression and therapy responses, and also in the implementation and development of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Pathology. He is a recognised expert in Biobanking and one of the UK’s leading authorities on the use of Artificial Intelligence in Histopathology.
He has extensive teaching experience across a range of scientific and healthcare disciplines at both undergraduate and post-graduate level, including teaching medical students, pharmacy students, science students, biomedical scientists, junior doctors and Histopathology trainees. He has also supervised undergraduate, Masters and PhD students for their research.
Professor Sharma is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Member of the Academy of Medical Educators. He has won several awards for both research and teaching. He currently serves on the Breast Cancer Now Biobank Advisory Council, and previously served on the Scottish Royal College of Pathologists Council and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in Scotland, the CM-Path initiative and the NCRI Breast Cancer and Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis Groups.