page_title: Amit Dutt
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Amit Dutt / Biography
caption_attribution_description: The University of Delhi main building, housed in former Viceregal Lodge (1912–1931)
context_page_description: Amit Dutt is an Indian scientist, geneticist and the principal investigator at Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer of Tata Memorial Centre. Known for his studies on Fibroblast growth factor receptor, Dutt is a Wellcome Trust / DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to medical sciences in 2017.
context_section_description: Amit Dutt, born on 6 September 1973 in Patna, capital of the Indian state of Bihar, earned a BSc in Botany from Desbandhu College, Delhi University in 1994 and continued there to complete a post-graduate diploma in Biochemical Technology in 1995 from the Sri Venkateswara College. Moving to Jamia Millia Islamia, he obtained his MSc in 1997 and enrolled for doctoral studies at the Delhi center of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology to secure a PhD in plant genetics in 2000, guided by Vanga Siva Reddy of Delhi University and Arif Ali of Jamia Millia Islamia. Subsequently, he traveled to the University of Zurich and working under the guidance of Alex Hajnal at the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences of the university, secured another PhD in Developmental Biology in 2004.
  Dutt continued in Zurich to work with Adriano Aguzzi at the Institute of Neuropathology of the university and in 2005, he moved to join the laboratory of Matthew Meyerson at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT as a research associate and worked there till 2010, stationing at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. On his return to India in Oct 2010, he joined Tata Memorial Centre, at the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Navi Mumbai where he is the principal investigator at scientist (grade F) and heads the Integrated Cancer Genomics Lab, popularly known as Dutt Lab.
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