Sheheryar Kabraji (2006)

Sheheryar Kabraji was born and completed school in Karachi, Pakistan. He was an undergraduate at Yale College, New Haven CT where he majored in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. He completed his preclinical degree at Wolfson College, Cambridge and then his clinical training at Oxford Medical School, where he was at Merton 2006-2009. 

After completing a foundation year at the Royal Free, he pursued an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a haematology/oncology fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, both in Boston, MA, USA. He was an Instructor at Dana-Farber from 2017 to 2023 and is now an Associate Professor at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, where he also serves as Principal Investigator of the Kabraji Lab. The lab focuses on studying the role of quiescent cancer cells in carcinogenesis and drug resistance, with a particular emphasis on breast cancer. In addition to his research, Sheheryar is a medical oncologist specialising in the care of patients with breast cancer.