Mainak Dutta was awarded PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2016. He is the recipient of Fulbright USA Doctoral Research Fellowship, United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), 2014. He was a visiting doctoral research scholar at Pennsylvania State University, USA from 2014-2015. He was also awarded the Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid for graduate research, Sigma Scientific Research Society, USA, 2015. After completing his PhD he joined the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2017, Dr. Dutta joined the Department of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Technology Pilani-Dubai Campus as Assistant Professor.

Mainak Dutta has expertise in systems biology and the use of ‘omics’ approaches, such as proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, to identify biomarkers and understand disease pathogenesis. Currently, his research group uses these approaches to identify novel drug targets against cancer pathways, especially, but not limited to, cancer metabolic pathways.