Harpal kumar biography definition

British medical researcher (born 1965)

Sir Harpal Singh Kumar (born 1965) is a British medical researcher of Indian descent who had served as the chief executive officer of Cancer Research UK^[1][2][3] from April 2008 until June 2018,^[4] when he became Senior Vice President and Head of Innovation EMEA at Johnson & Johnson.

He left the company in April 2020 and now serves as President of GRAIL Europe.^[5][6]

Early life and education

Kumar's parents were refugees. As Sikhs, they chose to leave what was to become Pakistan and move to India during the Partition of India in 1947, where they ended up in refugee camps.

Later they moved to England from India, where his father was employed sweeping factory floors, before eventually starting his own grocery store.^[7][8]

Kumar attended Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith before taking up a place to study Chemical Engineering at the Univers