Padmanee Sharma, MD, PhD Professor of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and Immunology in the Division of Cancer Medicine Biography Padmanee Sharma is a professor of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and Immunology in the Division of Cancer Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She has participated in 54 research outputs since 1996, focusing primarily on immunotherapy in her collaborations with Dr. James P. Allison. Sharma is a Cancer Research Institute Investigator who has tested new prostate cancer immunotherapies, looking for differences in T cell subsets and function between pre-therapy blood and tissue samples versus post-therapy blood and tissue samples. She has won multiple awards during her career including the 2012 MD Anderson Cancer Center Faculty Scholar Award and the 2008 Melanoma Research Alliance Young Investigator Award. With Allison, Sharma is exploring combinations of immunological therapies and targeted drugs in preclinical studies to more effectively treat a variety of cancers. Education & Training 1998: Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, MD, Medicine 1998: Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, Ph.D., Immunology 1991: Boston University, Boston, MA, MA, Biotechnology 1990: Boston University, Boston, MA, BA, Biology 2000: New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, Clinical Residency, Internal Medicine 2004: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Clinical Fellowship, Medical Oncology Awards & Honors 2012: MD Anderson Cancer Center Faculty Scholar Award; MD Anderson Women Faculty Programs "Woman Leading the Way"; National Institute of Health R01 Award 2011: Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas Award 2010: DOD/CDMRP Idea Development Award 2009: American Cancer Society Mentored Research Scholar Grant 2008: Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award; Melanoma Research Alliance Young Investigator Award; Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Award in Immunology 2007: Carl C. Anderson, Sr. & Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation; MD Anderson Cancer Center Bladder Cancer SPORE Development Award; The Gillson Longenbaugh Foundation 2006: American Society of Clinical Oncology Career Development Award; Cancer Research Institute Clinical Investigator Award; Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award 2005: MD Anderson Cancer Center Institutional Research Grant; MD Anderson Cancer Center Physician Scientist Training Program Award; National Institute of Health Renewal Clinical Loan Repayment Program Award 2003: American Society of Clinical Oncology, Young Investigator Award Recipient; Award Recipient, GSK National Medical Oncology Fellows Forum 2002: Award for Abstract Presentation, Doris Duke Symposium 2001: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Institutional NIH T32 Grant 1998: Pennsylvania State University, Department of Medicine Scholarship for Excellence in Medicine 1995: Pennsylvania State University Student Clinician Research Award 1994: The Judy S. Finkelstein Memorial Award in Immunology 1990: Golden Key National Honor Society