Known for his studies on Fibroblast growth factor receptor, Dutt is a Wellcome Trust / DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow.

[2][note 2] 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.

[6] Dutt is known to have made notable contributions in the field of cancer genetics,[7] widening our understanding of the disease and its translational possibilities.

[6] It is reported that the research collaboration Dutt had with Kumar Prabhash of Tata Memorial Centre led to the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) and KRAS mutation profiling of Indian lung cancer patients for the first time.

[4] Discovery of MMP10 protein, a biomarker which assists the doctors in deciding the surgical protocol in tongue cancer patients is another contribution of Dutt, which was the result of collaborative research with Sudhir Nair of TMC.