As a molecular cancer biologist, Rakesh Kumar has been dealing with unique factors of breast cancer in young women. He recently started a Foundation to address this issue.
In the last 38 years, he has served as a faculty member at leading U.S.-based universities and cancer centres including the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, engaged in innovative basic and translational research in breast cancer progression.
After a Master’s degree in Chemistry from Bareilly College in 1976 and PhD in Biochemistry from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi in 1984., he worked at AIIMS for a brief period. He migrated to the U.S. in 1986 and started training at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
