Principal Investigator
Arun K. Shukla, PhD, FNA, FASc, FNASc
Professor and Sonu Agrawal Memorial Chair
Senior Fellow, Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance
Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
Phone: 91-512-259-4251 (office)
Fax: 91-512-259-4010
Email: arshukla@iitk.ac.in
Twitter: @arshukla
Editorial Activities
Editorial Advisory Board - Molecular Pharmacology
Editorial Advisory Board - Molecular Cell
Editorial Board Member - Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Editorial Board Member - Journal of Biological Chemistry
Editorial Advisory Board - Cell Reports
Editorial Board Member - FEBS Journal
Editorial Board Member - European Journal of Cell Biology
Editorial Board Member - International J. Biochem. & Cell Biol.
Editorial Board Member - European Journal of Pharmacology
Editorial Board Member - British Journal of Pharmacology
Editorial Board Member - ACS Pharmacol. and Trans. Science
Editorial Board Member - Cellular Signaling
Editorial Board Member - Journal of Cellular Biochemistry
Editorial Board Member - PLOS ONE
Guest Section Editor - Current Opinion in Structural Biology
Guest Editor - British Journal of Pharmacology
Guest Editor - European Journal of Pharmacology (Elsevier)
Guest Editor - Methods in Enzymology (Elsevier)
Guest Editor - Methods in Cell Biology (Elsevier)
Guest Editor - Advances in Immunology (Elsevier)
Guest Editor - International Reviews of Cell. and Mol. Biol. (Elsevier)
Guest Editor - Springer Protocols Handbook (Springer)
Guest Editor - International J. Biochem. & Cell Biol. (Elsevier)
Guest Editor - Cellular Signaling (Elsevier)
Ad-hoc reviewer for Nature, Cell, Science, Molecular Cell, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Structure and Molecular Biology, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Current Biology, Science Signaling, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.
Leadership roles (National and International)
Member of the International Scientific Committee, 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 2023, Glasgow
Member, Global Council, International Chemical Biology Society (2021 - present)
Awards/Honors
2023 - Infosys Prize in Life Sciences
2023 - Sonu Agrawal Memorial Chair, IIT Kanpur
2022 - P. S. Sarma Memorial Award, Society of Biological Chemists
2022 - Fellowship, Indian National Science Academy
2021 - Fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences
2021 - Khosla National Award of IIT Roorkee, India
2021 - Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, India
2021 - Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
2020 - OPPI Young Scientist of the Year Award
2020 - Senior Fellowship, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance
2019 - Sun Pharma Research Award, Sun Pharma Science Foundation
2019 - Chemical Biologist Award, International Chem. Biol. Society
2019 - Young Scientist Award from Prof. H.S. Srivastava Foundation
2019 - Associateship, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
2019 - Rajib Goyal Prize in Life Science, Kurukshetra University
2018 - National Bioscience Award, DBT
2018 - Swarnajayanti Fellowship, DST
2018 - Prof. Rita Mulherkar Lecture Award, ISCB
2018 - Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize, ICMR
2018 - Joy Gill Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur
2018 - Young Researcher Award, Lady Tata Memorial Trust
2018 - CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research
2017 - Prof. Umakant Sinha Memorial Award (ISCA)
2017 - B M Birla Science Prize in Biology
2017 - EMBO Young Investigator
2017 - CNR Rao Award for research excellence
2017 - P K Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship
2016 - NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award
2015 - Young Scientist Award, Indian Society of Chemists & Biologists
2015 - Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award from DBT
2015 - Ramanujan Fellowship from DST, India (declined)
2015 - Prof. Ratna Phadke Award from the Indian Biophysical Society
2014 - Intermediate Fellowship, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance
2013 - Young Scientist Award from the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
2007 - Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB)
2006 - Young Scientist Award from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
