Sanjay Dutta is a current Cardiothoracic and Transplant Surgery Registrar at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney.

He is also currently completing his PhD at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and The University of New South Wales under the supervision of Professor Peter Macdonald and Professor Chris Hayward, exploring methods to improve donor heart organ preservation through the use of a novel peptide derived from the venom of the Australian funnel-web spider.

Sanjay is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Dora Lush Basic Science Postgraduate Scholarship.