Amritesh Chandra Shukla

Amritesh Chandra SHUKLA is Professor of Botany at University of Lucknow, India. His research has mainly focused on exploration and conservation of fungal diversity and its bioprospection as well as unraveling the mechanism of action of potential antifungal plant products/ biomolecules as pharmaceuticals and herbal drugs. He has developed some commercial antifungal formulations and granted USA, UK, Japanese and Indian patents. He has credited eleven books, and published his research findings in...See more

Amritesh Chandra SHUKLA is Professor of Botany at University of Lucknow, India. His research has mainly focused on exploration and conservation of fungal diversity and its bioprospection as well as unraveling the mechanism of action of potential antifungal plant products/ biomolecules as pharmaceuticals and herbal drugs. He has developed some commercial antifungal formulations and granted USA, UK, Japanese and Indian patents. He has credited eleven books, and published his research findings in various internationally reputed journals including seminars in cancer biology. For his scientific accomplishments, he received numerous awards and recognition, including the prestigious Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in the year 2021. He has also served the international scientific community well as Visiting Professor- University of Mauritius; and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has been in the expert panel of the Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia; and in the Research Degrees and Scholarships Committee, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. See less