Sharad Kumar sponsors free access to F1000 for Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Valdivia, Chile. Supporting F1000's initiative to make itself available to scientists in all countries, including free access to developing countries (more details).

Sharad Kumar is a Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Hanson Institute in Adelaide. He obtained his PhD from the University of Adelaide. Following this he worked at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), CSIRO Animal Health Laboratory (Geelong, Australia), RIKEN Tsukuba Life Science Centre (Tsukuba, Japan), and the Cancer Institute (Tokyo, Japan), before returning to Adelaide in mid 1994. While in Japan, he cloned a number of developmentally regulated gene (named Nedd1-Nedd10). Since that time, Sharad has been pursuing functional analyses of some of the Nedd gene. He currently heads the Molecular Regulation Laboratory at the Hanson Centre for Cancer Research. His main interests lie in studying various aspects of apoptosis and the regulation of ubiquitin-mediated protein turnover via the Nedd4 family of ubiquitin-protein ligases. He also has a keen interest in animal development and the use of functional genomics in understanding disease process.