Dr. Santanu Dasgupta has obtained PhD in Cancer Biology from Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, India and Postdoctoral Fellowship from Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was awarded with Scholar-In-Training Award from American Association for Cancer Research in 2002. Scholar-In-Training Award from American Association for Cancer Research in 2007. US-Egypt Joint Science and Technology Award in 2008. A.D. Williams Award, Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. Elsa U Pardee Foundation Award in 2012.

Dr. Dasgupta's research focuses on Characterization of key molecular genetic alterations and Defining the role of miRNAs and mitochondrial genetic alteration in Breast Cancer