Surish P. Shanmugam MBChB, MSc, RCP(UK) (Medical Oncology)

Dr. Surish Shanmugam obtained his medical degree from the University of Glasgow, UK and subsequently obtained a Master’s degree in Drug Discovery & Protein Biotechnology from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is a UK board certified medical oncologist with a keen interest in Oncology Drug Discovery and Translational Research and has also spent around 6 years working in industry as a pharmaceutical physician/oncologist, specifically on GU and GI oncology as well as leukemia. He has recently undertaken a Master's degree focused on cancer translational research at Harvard Medical School and joined Dr. Kent Mouw’s lab at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute to pursue wet lab/translational research in the urothelial cancer (UC) space, specifically in relation to Homologous Recombination Repair deficient and Nucleotide Excision Repair deficient UC respectively.

Dr. Surish also has a side interest in Health Economics and holds a Master’s degree in Health Economics & Pharmaco-economics. As much as he is deeply passionate about cancer research, he is equally passionate about finding practical and sustainable solutions that will greatly increase patient access to high quality cancer treatments.