Anindya Dutta's Biography

Anindya Dutta, Harry F. Byrd Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Professor of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Dr. Dutta is the Harry F. Byrd Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Professor of Pathology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He has trained at Christian Medical College, Vellore (M.B.B.S.), Rockefeller University (Ph.D.) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Residency in Pathology). He was Asst. and Assoc. Professor of Pathology at BWH before moving to UVA. His research interests cover genomic instability in cancer cells and noncoding RNAs in differentiation and cancer. His laboratory identified many of the replication initiation proteins in human cells, used genomics technology to identify hundreds of origins of replication in human chromosomes, discovered a major mechanism by which human cells prevent over-replication of their DNA, and identified a novel class of circular DNA present in normal mammalian cells His laboratory has also discovered many microRNAs that inhibit cell proliferation and promote differentiation during the conversion of muscle stem cells to mature muscle and microRNAs that contribute to the phenotypes of advanced prostate cancer. He has trained over thirty scientists who continue research in academia or industry, and has received the following honors: Elected Fellow of the AAAS, Ranbaxy Award for studies on genome instability and the Outstanding Investigator Award of the American Society for Investigative Pathology.