About Ashray
Ashray Gunjur is a specialist medical oncologist, with specific expertise in cancer immunotherapy and cancer-microbiome interactions. He completed his undergraduate medical studies (with honours) at the University of Melbourne, a Master of Public Health & Tropical Medicine via James Cook University (for which he was honoured with an academic medal), and specialist training through the Victorian Medical Oncology Training Program. With the support of a John Monash Scholarship and Cancer Research UK clinical research training fellowship, Ashray completed a PhD at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (University of Cambridge), exploring the relationship between the gut microbiome and the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy. As of 2025, he is working as a consultant medical oncologist at Cambridge University Hospitals, and a post-doctoral fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, continuing his research into the link between gut microbiota and cancer development, prognosis and therapy response.
