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FOUNDER & President, BREAST CANCER HUB
DR LOPAMUDRA DAS ROY, MS, PH.D, MBA
Dr. Lopamudra Das Roy (Distinguished Cancer Scientist-Research Professor-Principal investigator), Founder and President of Breast Cancer Hub (BCH), resigned from her rewarding job in 2017 to devote herself full-time to the pro bono humanitarian work of creating and growing Breast Cancer Hub (BCH) by providing 100% Free services with a dream to save lives by making impactful, sustainable changes at the grassroots level, bridging the gap between the Developed & the Developing Countries. BCH primarily serves North Carolina, across the USA, India, Africa, Turkey, and Globally through the hybrid model.
Dr Das Roy has 22+ years of experience in Research, Teaching and Mentoring undergraduate and Ph.D. candidates in the field of Genetics and Cancer. She 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, discovering targeted cancer 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 Contract grant from the National Cancer Institute as Principal Investigator. At the beginning of her career, she also served as Lecturer of Genetics at Garden City University, Bengaluru, India. Her original research work is attributed to numerous high-impact factor publications, inventions, citations, and press releases with global recognition from the 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 a Keynote speaker and is a scientist reviewer of grants from the Department of Defense (DOD) and cancer-related journals.
DR DAS ROYS RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: Click here
Dr Das Roy received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology (Genetics) from Assam University, India, with research experience in Biochemistry at Delhi University & 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.
Dr. Das Roy is the recipient of “2024 The Charlotte Ledger 40 over 40 Awards, presented by U.S. Bank, recognizing local unsung heroes”; She is “Awarded as one of the 50 most influential women in 2023 by The Mecklenburg Times & North Carolina Lawyers Weekly“ for professional achievements, community involvement, and record of leadership. She is a 2024 “George H.W Bush Points of Light” Awardee, She is a Finalist at Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2023 in the category Science & Innovation Management”, “Awarded as one of the 100 Global Women in Leadership 2021 by GCPIT“, “Honored as one of the five inspiring women around the world leading the fight against Breast Cancer”; Bestowed with the “USA President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for commitment to building a stronger nation through volunteer service”, “Best Researcher Award” in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine (INSO), 2022”, “Exemplary Social Worker Award”, “Global Role of Cancer Awareness”; “Truly dedicated Social Activist Award”; “Award of Excellence for Humanitarian service”.
Dr Das Roy’s story featured at Charlotte Lately Magazine in 2020 as one of the 31 Influential Women in the City (Charlotte, North Carolina), her journey featured at CanvasRebel, Global Women Summit, INet NYC (International Network in New York City), Voyage LA Magazine, Women Who Win, Passion Piece, Podcasts (making a Global Impact), and other Magazines, WBTV - Charlotte News, Press & blogs due to relentless work across the globe and the community in the field of Cancer, felicitated globally for her work and featured as best of 2020 East India Cover Story, recognized 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. She also received the Global Achievers’ Award 2021 from IAF, India for outstanding professional experience & contribution in Nation building.
Dr. Das Roy’s greatest award is the happiness she receives from bringing smiles to the families of innumerable lives she saves each day in the urban and rural areas in utmost need, who would have otherwise gone undetected.
To learn more on the inception of Breast Cancer Hub and interviews and podcasts of Dr Das Roy, Please click here: Mecklenburg Times, Points of Light, CanvasREBEL, Women who Win, Hidden Gems section - Voyage LA Magazine, Charlotte Lately Magazine, Passion Piece; East India Story, INet NYC (International Network in New York City), Podcast - Making a Global Impact (Interview by Carrie Madrid), Podcast (interview by Sarah Ashley Neal), Goodera, TheOncoPT Podcast Interview
Country of origin: Assam, India; Country of Residence: Charlotte, NC, USA Email, Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube
why breast cancer hub?
MY DREAM
Over the years, Being a Cancer research professor, I have realized how many lives are lost to Breast cancer in Women, Men, or other types of cancer due to taboo, ignorance, lack of awareness leading to late detection, & inaccessibility to healthcare facilities, accurate diagnosis & treatment management. All these concerns motivated me to resign in 2017 from a rewarding career & create Breast Cancer Hub as Full-time Pro bono humanitarian service with a dream to save lives by making impactful sustainable changes working at the grassroots level by bridging the gap between the Developed & the Developing Countries.
Learn more on the inception of Breast Cancer Hub & my dream - Interviews, Please click here: Mecklenburg Times, CanvasREBEL, Women who Win, Hidden Gems section-Voyage LA Magazine, Charlotte Lately Magazine, Passion Piece; East India Story, INet NYC (International Network in New York City), Podcast - Making a Global Impact (Interview by Carrie Madrid), Podcast (interview by Sarah Ashley Neal), Goodera, TheOncoPT Podcast Interview
An incident that left a mark & drove me towards Cancer.
I was 12-year-old, one of my friends’ mom passed away. At the funeral, when I asked someone the cause of death, to my surprise, people were hesitant to mention the word cancer & hushed me up when I repeated “Breast Cancer”? I was shocked & felt – “Is this the respect we give to a mother who lost her life that we can’t discuss the disease that cost her life?”.
The pain stayed within me & over the years I realized how Cancer became a household name & death sentence because of Late detection. I wanted to go deeper & understand the etiology of cancer, discover the pathways to find a cure & treatment therapy & always urged to educate the society about the concept of early detection & preventable measures so that we can significantly reduce the death rate worldwide.
I was born in a family of Doctors and Healthcare providers relentlessly and tirelessly working towards the community. My Grandfather (Late Dr K.N Das) and Father (Late Dr Chandra Sekhar Das) served patients in Assam, North-East Part of India & my mother Rita Das served the mankind through her selfless gestures. I was motivated and followed the same path with a passion in the field of Cancer Research to find a cure and treatment modalities & eventually dedicating my purpose towards serving the community.
My dream of building Breast Cancer Hub also stems from my discussions with Breast Cancer patients/advocates sharing their stories of pain and agony when mammograms failed their diagnosis due to dense breast issues even in the most developed countries in the world such as the USA. My heart sank when I saw young moms dying of Breast Cancer due to late detection & the death rate being significantly higher in the developing countries.
During my travel to the developing countries and interaction with women, I observed the level of ignorance about taking care of their breast health. Despite women doing so well in every sphere of their lives, regardless of their level of education and socioeconomic status, breast cancer mortality is high in the developing world. The situation in the rural sector is grimmer and very critical. It’s the stigma of using the word “Breast”. Besides “SHYNESS”, the other major player for late detection is “IGNORANCE” – No one discusses issues with Breast since uttering the word Breast is Taboo & awkwardness. Breast cancer screening is a low priority and the knowledge of Breast Self-Examination, Clinical Breast Examination & other screening methods (Mammogram and Ultrasound) is very limited. Women would go to the oncologists usually late when tumors are huge and metastasized which becomes an incurable situation leading to a very high death rate.
Also, Breast cancer in men worldwide is increasing and most men with Breast Cancer seem to have experiences of shock and subsequent embarrassment, battling the “stigma” of having a predominately woman's disease.
I commenced this new chapter of my life to bridge the gap between the developed & developing countries, to BREAK the BREAST & CANCER TABOO, to penetrate the untapped sectors, conduct early detection screening, cancer care-treatment & management & help SAVE LIVES.
We believe in “Coming together to fight ALL Cancer” for the Families & Communities Faced with Cancer through our BCH Wings-CANCER HUBS. We Save A Life, We Save A Family.
Research - we bring the true scenarios & data by penetrating into the untapped sectors for substantial impactful scientific results, need of the hour to help the community. Lack of global clinical data on Breast Cancer across demographics and ethnicity, especially from the developing world always bothers me. The survival frequency of Breast Cancer & other types of Cancer is very low in the developing world. I believe, this critical situation won’t be taken seriously until and unless we understand the status and frequency of Cancer collectively represented from all the cities & villages (remote) across developing countries through appropriate data collection and analysis. We can bridge the gap between the developed and developing world to uplift the research potential and bring into limelight the current situation of Cancer in the urban & rural sectors across the globe, and try to decipher the hidden elements that may eventually help in the treatment schema. We are also working on other type of Cancers in addition to Breast Cancer.
In 2017, I decided to give up my professional career to take on a fully voluntary philanthropic mission by forming Breast Cancer Hub to take on fundamental challenges related to healthcare, sustainability goals, perform clinical research analysis & drive results and save more lives on a widespread basis across developed and developing countries by working at the grassroot level. Please come and join us to drive this transformation and support the cause. TogetherWeSaveLives.
BREAST CANCER HUB & bch wings-cancer hubs: DRIVING A CHANGE
Breast Cancer Hub (BCH), is a GuideStar Platinum Certified, 2021 Top-rated 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, registered in North Carolina, USA in September 2017.
VISION: SAVER - Save Lives By Awareness, Volunteering, Education & Research
GRASSROOTS SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS SAVING LIVES GLOBALLY - We Believe, We Save A Life, We Save A Family
WE ARE A GLOBAL FAMILY. We Stand Against Discrimination of Color, Religion, Language & Culture. WE SERVE EVERYONE WITH EQUALITY
#TogetherWeSaveLives #BreakTheBreastTaboo #BreakTheCancerTaboo #CancerIsNotContagious #KnowYourBody
We fight BREAST CANCER in WOMEN, MEN & LGBTQ+. We stand together against ALL TYPES OF CANCER via our BCH WINGS – CANCER HUBS with the following GOALS:
Early Detection & Prevention - Awareness, Education, Scientific Seminars, Early Detection Screening Cards, Cancer Articles, Informational Videos - BCH generates the one-stop Life-saving Cards, Research papers, educational videos in simple layman’s terms to empower everyone about the symptoms of Cancer, help detect early and treat accurately.
Community Outreaches & Cancer screening camps – We save innumerable lives each day by helping to be detected early, analyzing the reports, navigating suspicious cases towards healthcare facilities & affordable options for the underprivileged & uninsured populace. We have follow-ups from patients as Dr. Das Roy shares her contacts during the outreaches & provides scientific counseling for each patient reaching out.
Adopting Villages - BCH IS THE PIONEER: Penetrating deeper, going to each member, each household, maintaining database & follow-ups, for Cancer screening, Treatment management & support, Palliative care & Counseling. We monitor & manage each patient individually, case by case.
Support Groups & Counseling: a) We provide scientific analysis of the cancer diagnosis & treatment; b) We publish stories & interviews of Cancer advocates in local languages to inspire others fighting Cancer; c) We provide Medical Guidance to Our Patients, Our Support Groups, as we stand for each other, emotionally connected.
Care Package for BCH patients: We create mastectomy or lumpectomy comfort pillows with a pocket that allows to use a cold or hot pack as part of the healing. We make knitted hats, chemo hats, and chemo port seat-belt pillows, a gesture to show our Love for our BCH Cancer fighters from USA.
Patient Treatment Bucket: Aids the underprivileged populace in poverty especially in the developing countries with diligent follow-ups of the financial assistance utilization, currently serving Africa and India.
Research: BCH penetrates into the untapped sectors for substantial impactful scientific analysis, working towards changing healthcare policies, providing sustainable solutions, need of the hour to help the community. BCH Cancer Research (Clinical data analysis & Epidemiological Research Study) is approved by Institutional Review Board (IRB, USA), & Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC, INDIA)
Hurricane, Covid, Flood Relief Response: Hurricane relief in NC mountains, Executing Awareness Safety Protocols, Mask making to distribution, Food Relief in BCH-adopted villages
Leadership Programs: Dr. Das Roy inculcates the art of scientific thinking & thought leadership in the students, helping with their careers and motivating them to serve the community as leaders executing impactful roles as Volunteers, Ambassadors & Interns.
Funding Source: Support from “Kindhearted” donors from our community members. Every Penny Counts. All our services are free of cost & All donations are driven toward our mission. Operating expenses are limited to logistics solely needed to execute BCH Goals and Projects. BCH Tax Filings and Certified Financial Reports - Click Here