Dr Amit Dutt is a scientist at the Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) at the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. His laboratory focuses on understanding genetic changes in human cancer cells and how they can help develop effective targeted therapies. A Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar awardee, Dutt, along with colleagues, recently published a paper on the genetic mutations across the world in SARS-CoV-2.