Tropical Medicine & Surgery

Rajesh Kumar Sharma

Rajesh Kumar Sharma
Department of Medicine, James Graham Brown Cancer Center
University of Louisville, USA

Biography

Dr. Sharma is currently a Faculty of Department of Medicineand James Graham Brown cancer Center at University of Louisville,Louisville, Kentucky, USA.He completed his Ph.D. in the area of immunology at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in India. Dr. Sharma then moved to USA to pursue his postdoctoral studies in the area of cancer immunology/immunotherapy and therapeutic cancer vaccines at the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, Department of Microbiology & Immunology at University of Louisville. Dr. Sharma serves as Editorial Board member and reviewer for various journals. His research interests are in the area of cancer immunology, Onco-immunology, cancer immunotherapies, particularly development of combinatorial therapeutic approaches such as chemo-immunotherapy, and defining biomarkers for early detection of various cancer types and cancer metastasis. Dr. Sharma has widely published in journals of Immunology and Cancer Research. Dr. Sharma is also involved in understanding the role of chemokine and its receptors in cancer-immune interplay to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of immunotherapies such as cancer vaccines.

Research Interest

Dr. Sharma's research interests includes Cancer Immunology/ Immunotherapy, Therapeutic cancer vaccines, Chemo-immunotherapy, Immune modulation,  Chemokines, and their receptors in cancer Cancer biomarkers, Cancer metastasis