Arun Kumar Shukla

[1] Known for his studies on G protein-coupled receptor, Shukla is a Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow and a recipient of the SwarnaJayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology.

[3] He was awarded the Infosys Prize 2023 in Life Sciences his outstanding contributions to the biology of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).

Dr. Arun Kumar Shukla was born on 01 November 1981[4] in Kushinagar in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,[5] earned his master's degree in biotechnology from Jawaharlal Nehru University after which he did his doctoral studies under the guidance of Hartmut Michel (Nobel Laureate, 1988) of Max Planck Institute of Biophysics.

[9] He led a team of IITK scientists who developed nanomachines which could be designed to selectively target signalling events inside living cells.

[12] Shukla received the Infosys Prize 2023 in Life Sciences, he was selected for this prestigious award by an eminent jury chaired by MIT Professor, Mriganka Sur.