Nima Sharifi MD

Summary

• Dr. Nima Sharifi is an oncology specialist based in Miami, FL, particularly experienced in prostate cancer research. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Medical Center and his fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. He is currently serving as Scientific Director and Professor at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. Previously, he was the Director of the GU Malignancies Research Center at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Sharifi has numerous publications in notable journals, including Nature, Cell, Nature Reviews Urology, Science Translational Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. He has received recognition for his work, including as an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), elected member of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and being awarded the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research and the AACR Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research.