Anil Kumar works in the area of microbiota and cancer biology. He received his M.Sc. (Biotechnology) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and his Ph.D. at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), New Delhi. He is currently a Staff Scientist at the National Institute of Immunology (NII). His research interests are the microbiome and human cancer. His laboratory aims to delineate this complex interaction among microbiota, bacterial infections, inflammation and carcinogenesis. He also plans to explore the role of bacteria and microbiota and their metabolites in enhancing cancer immunotherapy. He was awarded the CSIR Technology Award in 2012, the Merck Millipore India Innovation Award in 2012, the ‘Young Scientist Award’ from IUBMB in 2006, and the ‘Young Investigator Award’ from HUPO in 2004.