Sunil Kumar Ahuja (born March 13, 1961)[1] is a professor of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and an expert on the role of immunogenetics on HIV pathogenesis.

His most recent work, first published in the 2005 issue of Science, involves the ethnic group-specific role of CCR5 haplotype and CCL3L1 gene copy number on the progression of HIV to AIDS.

degree from the University of Alberta in Canada, Ahuja had his internship and residency at the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn.

[5] In February 2008, Ahuja was listed as one of "35 People Who Will Shape Our Future" by Texas Monthly magazine.

[7][8][9][10] Ahuja's group responded in the same issue of Cell Host & Microbe,[11] and also in a subsequent study published in 2011.