Ashok Kar
Surgeon - Cardiothoracic
Northern General Hospital, Sheffield
Herries Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Research
- Royal College of Surgeons, England, UK-US Fulbright Scholar (2021-22), Stanford University, USA
- ‘Investigating Circulating Tumour DNA in patients undergoing Lobectomy for Non-small cell lung cancer’
- Supervisors: Professor Joseph Shrager (Chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery) and Dr Max Diehn (Department of Radiation Oncology and Stanford Cancer Institute), August 2021 to November 2021
- CRUK funded research in Cell Cycle Genetics
- Undergraduate research project identified novel protein interaction within Mitosis between MEI-S332/Shugoshin and PP2A in Drosophila – published in Current Biology 17, 293–303, February 20, 2007 (134 citations). Supervisor: Professor David Glover, FRS.
- At the time of B.A (Hons) viva, the role of PP2A in mitosis was published by Watanabe Group [Nature 2006 May 4;441(7089):46-52]
- Academic Foundation Programme in Surgery, Imperial College London (2009-11)
- Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Surgery and Cancer Imperial College London (2010-11)
- NIHR funded inter-disciplinary translational research in collaboration with: Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial (Supervisor: Mr Erik Mayer; Professor Ara Darzi, FRS); Department of Physics, Imperial (Supervisor: Profesor Paul French); Hamlyn Institute for Medical Robotics (Supervisor: Professor Dan Elson) in collaboration with Karl-Storz. (2010-11) for Novel Optical Diagnosis of Cancer using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
Practice Areas
Thoracic
Organizations
Other Interests
Minimal Access Thoracic Surgery for Lung Cancer including VATS, Robotics, Intra-Operative Imaging, Day Case Surgery and Interventional BronchoscopyApplication of AI to Surgical Oncology; Using Medical Technology to Improve Patient Outcomes