Sheila Singh

Sheila K. Singh is a pediatric neurosurgeon and Canada Research Chair in human cancer stem cell biology and professor of surgery and biochemistry at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. She is also the director of the McMaster Surgeon-Scientist Program and a scientist at the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute.

Singh graduated from McGill University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in neurobiology and molecular genetics, and from McMaster University with an MD in 1997. She subsequently trained in neurosurgery and completed a PhD at McMaster, and did a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at SickKids.

In 2017, she was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Singh is married and has two sons, named Alexander and Rafael.