Lopamudra Das Roy
Lopamudra Das Roy, MS, Ph.D., MBA, Founder and President, Breast Cancer Hub www.breastcancerhub.org
Dr Lopamudra Das Roy is a Distinguished Cancer Scientist-Research Professor, resigned from her career to create and grow Breast Cancer Hub as pro bono & voluntary service with a dream to save lives by making impactful changes working at the grassroots level.
She has 20+ years of experience in Research, Teaching and Mentoring undergraduate and Ph.D. candidates in the field of Genetics and Cancer Research. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology (Genetics) from Assam University, India, with research experience in Biochemistry at Delhi University & worked as Lecturer of Genetics at Garden City University, Bengaluru in the beginning of her career. She received her Post-Doctoral fellowship from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA in Cancer Immunology & therapeutics focusing on Breast and Pancreatic Cancer and her MBA from Northwestern University-Kellogg School of Management, Chicago. She also completed “Step into Impact” Nonprofit Executive Education Program from Northwestern-Kellogg School of Management.
Dr Das Roy served at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), USA as Research Professor, awarded with grants as Principal Investigator (PI) from the Department of Defense (DOD) cancer research program, investigating targeting therapies and signaling pathways in metastatic Breast and Pancreatic cancer. Dr. Das Roy worked as Research Director at OncoTAb, Inc (UNCC spin off), focusing on Cancer diagnostics and therapeutics and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at UNCC & was awarded with Contract grant from National Cancer Institute as PI. Her original research work is attributed with numerous high impact factor publications, inventions, citations, press releases with global recognition from American Association of Cancer Research and public media for breakthrough work on discovering the signaling pathway between Breast cancer metastasis and Arthritis. She is invited to present her work at worldwide conferences as Guest speaker and is a scientist reviewer of grants from DOD and for Cancer related journals.
Dr. Das Roy received “Award of Excellence for Humanitarian service” from Male Breast Cancer Coalition in the USA. Dr Das Roy’s story featured at Charlotte Lately Magazine as one of the 31 Influential Women in the City, her journey featured at Passion Piece, and other Magazines, Press & blogs due to relentless work across the globe and the community in the field of Cancer, felicitated globally for her work and featured at East India Cover Story as the savior of women with Breast Cancer in addition to being awarded for Outstanding performance on relief and welfare activities in India during Covid-19 from Universal Diplomatic Affairs of Human Rights.
