Bhudev C Das has made outstanding contributions in the field of cancer research, tumor virology, human genetics and mutation research. He has published more than 210 research papers in reputed international journals and distinguished himself as a renowned Molecular Oncologist. He has worked with the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Harald zur Hausen at German Cancer Research Centre (DFKZ), Heidelberg, and later he pioneered the work in India on Human Papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical and other cancers. He established National and WHO Regional HPV Referral Centre for South-East Asia at ICPO. His present areas of research are transcriptional regulation, miRNA regulation, cancer stem cell and cancer drug discovery. Das is the recipient of President’s gold medal of the Dr. B.C. Roy National Award of MCI, Sandoz Oration Award of ICMR, among several others, including the prestigious J.C. Bose National Fellowship (2008-2016). He is a Fellow of all four major national science and medical academies (FNA, FASc, FNASc and FAMS) and of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Geneva. He was WHO expert advisor of the Global HPV LabNet & HPV Vaccine Program at Geneva for several years.