Early Career Educator
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Department: School of Biomedical Sciences
Dr Priyank Shukla earned a First Class BSc in Biotechnology (2001-2004) from Bareilly College, MJPR University, Bareilly, India, followed by a First Class MSc in Bioinformatics (2004-2006) from University Institute of Engineering & Technology, CSJM University, Kanpur, India. Thereupon, he joined Laboratory of Genomics at Department of Histology, Embryology and Applied Biology, University of Bologna, Italy for 3-months as a Visiting Researcher, where he was awarded ‘DIEBA Prize for a Young Researcher working in Bioinformatics applied to Functional Genomics’.
Subsequently, he was awarded ‘Brains-in PhD Residential Scholarship’ (2007-2009) by the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna, Italy, and ‘100-Young Indian Researcher Scholarship’ (2009-2010) by Ministry of Education, University and Research, Government of Italy, to pursue a PhD in Computer Science (area of research: Machine Learning and Structural Bioinformatics) at Bologna Biocomputing Group under the supervision of Professor Rita Casadio.
He then undertook a Postdoctoral Scientist (Bioinformatics) position at Jak-Stat Signalling Consortium based in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria (2010-2016), focusing on understanding Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and Jak-Stat Signalling – linking infection, inflammation and cancer. During his Postdoc stint he received travel grants from EMBO Germany, Virginia Tech USA and OIST Japan for presenting his research work.
He was appointed to his current post as a Lecturer in Stratified Medicine (Bioinformatics) at Ulster University in July 2016. His current research and teaching focuses in the fields of Personalised Medicine, Bioinformatics and Positive Pedagogy in Higher Education. Dr Shukla is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK, Fellow of Centre for Higher Education Research and Practice UK, and was awarded twice (back-to-back) Ulster University’s ‘Distinguished Education Excellence Award’, first time under ‘Professional Practice Innovation’ category in 2018, and a second time under ‘Early Career Educator Category’ in 2019. He currently leads an Advance HE funded project.
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This work from Dr Shukla has progressed into an oral presentation at Advance HE’s STEM 2019 conference which is available here, and an Advance HE funded Small Development Project (SDP) whose outputs are available here.