Dr. Chitra Thakur is an Assistant Professor-Research in the Department of Pathology at the Stony Brook Cancer Center, New York, USA. She is a cancer biologist and has expertise in molecular oncology, mouse models of human cancers, analyzing big data in translational research, toxicology, and epigenetics in human cancers. She is the recipient of several internationally acclaimed awards such as the “DFG German Excellence Initiative Award,?, “NIH-Big Data Training for Translational Omics Research? and “American Cancer Society IRG?. With more than 45 research articles published in mainstream scientific journals, she has contributed significantly towards the understanding of the molecular mechanisms in human cancers. She is engrossed in cancer research, teaching, and community outreach initiatives, hence fostering the scientific community and health care professionals engaged in cancer diagnosis, and treatment.