Professor

Sharad Kumar

AM FAA FAHMS

Sharad Kumar
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Sharad Kumar has made seminal contributions to two areas of fundamental biology: the understanding of programmed cell death, and the regulation of protein homoeostasis. He discovered one of the first mammalian caspases; a novel family of ubiquitin ligases; and a ubiquitin-like protein (Nedd8) involved in a novel protein-modification system now termed Neddylation. His group discovered and characterised a large part of the Drosophila cell death machinery and defined a novel cell death program during development. His discoveries have contributed fundamental knowledge to the fields of cell death, caspases, animal development, cancer biology and ubiquitination.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310102 Cell Development, Proliferation and Death
    • 310108 Protein Trafficking
  • 3109 ZOOLOGY
    • 310902 Animal Cell and Molecular Biology
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3208 MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY
    • 320801 Cell Physiology
  • 3211 ONCOLOGY AND CARCINOGENESIS
    • 321101 Cancer Cell Biology

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Apoptosis
  • Cell Biology
  • Protein Regulation
  • Biochemistry
  • Protein-protein Interactions
  • Cancer Biology
  • Cell Death
  • Medical Sciences

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