Hemant Kocher

Hemant Kocher is a Professor of Liver and Pancreas Surgery at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the Barts Cancer Institute, Centre for Tumour Biology. As a surgeon-scientist, his research bridges clinical and translational aspects of pancreatic cancer, focusing on tumor microenvironment, stroma biology, and innovative therapies.

• Clinical research: Tissue banking, clinical trials, surgical techniques, epidemiology, patient care pathways.
• Translational research: Pancreatic cancer stroma, tumor-stroma cross-talk, cell signaling, metastasis, biomarker discovery.

Key funding includes grants from Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, CRUK-EPSRC, and MRC for projects like STAR-PAC2 and Panc-Cys-Gan. He was awarded the Jeremy Jass Prize for Research Excellence for his 2019 work on fibroblast heterogeneity. His publications highlight chemotherapy potentiation via lymphoid structures, stromal biomarkers, and stromal-targeting drug trials.