Shukry J. Habib PhD

Shukry Habib pursued his undergraduate studies in biology at the Technion in Israel. He received his Master’s degree in Biochemistry from Tel Aviv University in Israel under the supervision of Prof. Abdussalam Azem. Shukry completed his graduate doctorate studies (Dr. rer. nat) in Biochemistry under the supervision of Prof. Walter Neupert and Prof. Doron Rapaport at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, LMU in Munich, Germany. His graduate studies focused on the biogenesis of mitochondrial membrane proteins. Shukry became a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Roel Nusse at Stanford University, California. Currently, Shukry is a principal investigator at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at King's College London.

Shukry has received numerous awards and honors including Minerva fellowship (Max-Plank Society), EMBO fellowship, DFG fellowship, and Siebel scholar. Recently he was awarded the Sir Henry Dale fellowship (Wellcome Trust and Royal Society, UK), one of the most prestigious awards for young investigators.