Dr. Arun Shukla received his Masters (M.Sc.) in Biotechnology from the Center for Biotechnology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.  Dr. Shukla is currently Joy Gill Chair Professor, EMBO Young Investigator and Senior Fellow of the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at IIT Kanpur. Dr. Shukla’s research program is focused on understanding structure, function and regulation of G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs), the largest family of cell surface receptors in the human genome and the target of about half of the currently available medicines.