Head and shoulders image of Dr. Rajendra K. Sharma, professor of Pathology.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Rajendra Kumar Sharma was born on 2 January 1942 in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India. He spent his childhood in Hathras where he studied primary education at Mohan Gunj Primary Municipality School and higher secondary education at Saraswati Inter College. Dr. Sharma completed his BSc in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology in 1963 and an MSc in Biochemistry in 1965, both from Aligarh Muslim University. Dr. Sharma served as a chemistry lecturer at Saraswati Inter College due to the shortage of chemistry teachers in 1965. He was awarded a research fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to pursue a PhD degree in Biochemistry at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, where he worked in the area of protein chemistry and enzymology. After completing his PhD, Dr. Sharma worked as a lecturer at the Department of Biochemistry, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, New Delhi. Dr. Sharma pursued his postdoctoral research in the field of cancer biology in 1972 in the Department of Biochemistry & Pharmacology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1975 he joined the College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, as a research associate in the Department of Biochemistry. In 1976 Dr. Sharma joined the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, to pursue his further research career. Later Dr. Sharma moved to the Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Calgary, Alberta. He made several discoveries in the areas of signal transduction. In 1991 Dr. Sharma was appointed as associate professor at the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. He was awarded an earned Doctor of Science degree in Pathology by the U of S in 2004. In 2012 Dr. Sharma was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor at the U of S and he continues to serve at the same position (2021).