The phrase "mitigating damage to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe trying to reduce or prevent harm or damage. For example: "The company took swift action to mitigate damage to their reputation after the scandal broke."
Further, understanding these molecular players will likely lead to innovative strategies to effectively target the unique energy requirements of cancer cells, permitting effective anticancer treatment while mitigating damage to normal cell function.
In the same vicinity, the freeway sinks below ground level in a trench; groundwater-retaining walls were installed to prevent the lowering of the water table in adjacent wetlands, therefore mitigating damage to them.
In June the Bluewater Network, an environmental advocacy group in San Francisco, filed petitions with the park service and other federal land agencies seeking more aggressive steps to mitigate damage to public lands from global warming.
For more than almost 30 years, radioprotective procedures have been proposed to mitigate damage to the salivary glands [5].
The news reports cast OPEC's magnanimity in terms of a balancing act -- how to mitigate damage to a potentially slowing world economy while also making sure that the price doesn't drop too far, too fast.
However, you are affected by the choices made on a national and international level about how to prevent and mitigate damage to the technology you depend on (to read this blog, for example).
Chief whips warn, threaten and even bully MPs in an attempt to modify poor behaviour – and the notorious black book of MPs' misdeeds does exist – but more often than not that does not end the problem, so they end up merely trying to mitigate damage to the party.
To mitigate damage to DNA, a number of mechanisms have evolved to repair a variety of lesions.
To test this hypothesis we analyzed the response of heat shock proteins, which are particularly strong candidates for regulating a heat-specific response because of their key role in mitigating damage due to cellular stress (Lindquist and Craig 1988).
The emergency efforts to mitigate damage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, meanwhile, brought some notes of relief in the face of persistently dire conditions.
Samarco said in a statement on its website that it was making "every effort to prioritise care to people and mitigate damage to the environment".
