Professor Ricky Sharma is a Professor of Clinical Oncology based at University College London.

Prof Sharma graduated in medicine from the University of Cambridge and then trained in general internal medicine, medical oncology and radiation oncology. He completed a PhD on DNA damage repair.  Since 2006, he has led a research group at the University of Oxford. 

He is the Laboratory Group Leader of the Translational DNA Repair Group at the CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology at the University of Oxford. He is also a Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford, an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. His specialisms include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, bowel cancer, liver cancer, and liver-directed therapies.  

Dr Sharma has a prominent national and international profile in his field  and co-chairs the Early Phase Trials Workstream of the NCRI Clinical Translational Radiotherapy (CTRad) Group and is the Chief Investigator of the NCRN FOXFIRE, a multi-centre, clinical randomised clinical trial testing a new combination of chemotherapy and selective internal radiotherapy in the treatment of liver metastases from colorectal cancer.  He is an examiner for Royal College of Radiologists (Clinical Oncology) a member of Faculty Board and a prominent member of several working groups within the college, particularly on interventional oncology and undergraduate education.  He also tutors at Harris Manchester College and St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, Dr Sharma is a module leader for postgraduate teaching of radiobiology and oncology and is leading the development of a national mentorship scheme for clinical oncology trainees.  He was appointed as Chair of the Teaching Committee of the Oncology Department at the University of Oxford in May 2011.

Dr Sharma is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Radiologists.