Arun Kumar Shukla is a famous structural biologist, who rose to fame with his study on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR). GPCR are proteins which are permanently attached to the cell membranes. These respond to sensory or other stimuli from outside the cells and also physiologically respond to hormones.
Shukla’s team of scientists at IIT, Kanpur designed nanomachines which target certain signalling events. Several marketed drugs work with the use of these techniques.
Dr. Arun Kumar Shukla was born on 01 November 1981 in Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh. He did his PG degree in biotechnology from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Then he did his doctoral studies under the guidance of Hartmut Michel (Nobel Laureate,1988) of the Max Planck Institute of Bio- physics, Germany.
He started his career at the prestigious Duke University as an assistant professor at their department of medicine. He came back to India and joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE). He is a professor and heads the Laboratory of GPCR Biology.
Let us have a look at the many awards that Dr. Shukla received.
- National Bioscience Award for Career Development, 2017-18.
- 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science.
- B.M. Birla Science Prize (2017),
- NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award of the National Academy of Sciences, India (2016),
- CDRI Award (2018),
- Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize of the Indian Council for Medical Research (2018)
- EMBO Young Investigator Award (2017).
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