Dr. Sharma is an Additional Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Posted in NCI-India/AIIMS Jhajjar Campus, AIIMS, New Delhi.He received Ph.D. in Cancer Biology at the Department of Biochemistry at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, in 2009.

He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the prestigious “DBT-Ramalingaswami fellowship” and “DST-Ramanujan fellowship” awards from Govt. of India and “Outstanding Immunologist Award”, Immunocon, Indian Immunologist Society, BHU. In 2009, he joined the Vanderbilt Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA as a postdoctoral fellow.

He worked on tight junction proteins (claudins) and their role in regulating cell migration and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). In 2012, he joined the group of Adam R Karpf at Eppley Institute, UNMC, as a senior postdoc. He is working on the epigenetics & regulation of Cancer-Testis/germline antigen POTE and its biomarkers/therapeutic potential.

He has published multiple research articles and abstracts in national and international journals. He is actively involved in ePG-Pathshala, an MHRD, National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) venture to develop e-content at the postgraduate level that will help to improve the education system in India. Dr. Sharma has been the principal investigator and co-investigator in multiple projects for gynecological cancer. Dr. Sharma has been actively involved in establishing the “DBT-AIIMS/NCI-India Translational & Clinical Research Partnership Center” as PI with the help of DBT, GOI, and Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) at NCI-India with collaboration with EDRN-NCI-USA.