Amit Dutt's Biography

Amit Dutt, Principal Investigator, Scientist F, Tata Memorial Centre

Dr Amit Dutt is a Principal Investigator (Scientist F) at ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre. He is a recipient of two Ph.D degrees. After completing his doctoral studies in Plant Genetics from ICGEB, he pursued second Ph.D in Developmental Biology from the Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland; is a recipient of the Swiss National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellowship award (2005); the Ramalingaswami Fellowship Award (2010) and the Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship (2012). He is a Faculty Member in Medical Genetics- F1000 Prime; serves on the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE; BMC Genomics; and, on the advisory Board of several start up companies in India. Before joining ACTREC, Dr. Dutt completed his postdoctoral studies at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He has published in several reputed scientific journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, Cancer Discovery, PNAS, Cancer Research, Anals of Oncology, British Journal of Cancer, Chem Biol, etc….