![Anindya Dutta, PhD, is the chairman of the UVA Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.](https://makingofmedicine.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dutta_A-for-web-351x244.jpg)
How Our Cells Repair Damaged DNA
Our Anindya Dutta, MD, PhD, has made an important discovery suggesting that 10 percent to 15 percent of prostate cancer and lymphomas have a genetic weakness that makes them particularly vulnerable to chemotherapy and radiation therapy. That should be very good news for patients with that subset of cancers. But…