Anindya Dutta MBBS, PhD

Dr. Anindya Dutta, Chair of the Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Department at the University of Virginia, is the recipient of the 2015 ASIP Outstanding Investigator Award. This prestigious award recognizes midcareer investigators with demonstrated excellence in research in experimental pathology.

Dr. Dutta is a leading investigator in two separate fields of molecular biology, according to Dr. Christopher Moskaluk of the University of Virginia. Dr. Moskaluk and Dr. Abul Abbas of the University of California at San Francisco highlight Dr. Dutta’s impressive authorships, with 112 publications, most in high quality scientific journals.

Dr Dutta has also received over $117 million in grant funding and is currently the primary investigator on multiple NIH grants. Dr. Dutta has “identified several DNA replication initiating factors (Orc3-6, Cdc6, Cdt1, geminin, Cdc45, Mcm10 and And1/Ctf4) and characterized their roles in DNA replication.” The biological processes that he helped discover were to decipher “how some of these proteins interact to prevent reinitiation of DNA replication during a single cell cycle and how checkpoint proteins sense such abnormal re-initiation during DNA damage.”