Sharon Prince is a Full Professor and the Head of the Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She heads a cancer biology laboratory and has trained several postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students. Her research focuses on identifying and characterising novel therapeutic interventions and drug targets for cancer. She has published several seminal papers on the role and regulation of the transcription factors TBX2 and TBX3 in cancer and is internationally recognized as a pioneer and authority in this field. She collaborates with leading international researchers, publishes in top journals in the field, is invited to give lectures at national and international meetings, and is a regular reviewer for journals and funding bodies. She was appointed the Director of a breast cancer consortium in 2012, was awarded an Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fellowship in 2011 and the Harry Crossley Senior Clinical Fellowship in 2010.
