• 2026 & 2025  Biology of Reproduction Top Reviewer Award by Society for the Study of Reproduction
• 2024 Poster and Oral talk Abstract Reviewer, 57th Annual Meeting of Society for the Study of Reproduction, Dublin, Ireland
• 2024 Hypertension (American Heart Association) Early Career Assistant Program
• 2023 Biology of Reproduction Top Reviewing Editor Award, by Society for the Study of Reproduction
• 2022 Poster Session Judge, 69th Annual Meeting of Society for Reproductive Investigation, Denver, CO, US
• 2022 & 2021 Donald C. Johnson Trainee Travel Award, Institute for Reproduction and Perinatal Research, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, US
• 2020 KU Medical Center - Biomedical Research Training Program (BRTP) Postdoctoral Award
• 2020 Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE) Postdoctoral Award
• 2019 CSIR- Central Drug Research Institute Incentive Award for Publication
• 2019 Prof. S.S. Guraya Young Scientist Award from Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility
• 2018 Best Poster Award from Animal Physiologists Association
• 2017 Department of Biotechnology (Government of India) International Travel Grant
• 2016 Senior Research Fellowship from Indian Council of Medical Research

Vinay Shukla*, Iqbal K, Okae H, Arima T, Soares MJ*. Effects of an aryl hydrocarbon receptor ligand on human trophoblast cell development (2025) Human Reproduction, 40(6), 1163–1172

Vinay Shukla*, Ayelen Moreno-Irusta, Kaela M. Varberg, Marija Kuna, Anna M. Galligos, Khursheed Iqbal, John D. Aplin, Rahul H. Choudhury, Hiroaki Okae, Takahiro Arima, and Michael J. Soares*. NOTUM mediated WNT signaling drives extravillous trophoblast cell lineage development. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (40) e2403003121

Vinay Shukla*, Michael J Soares*. Modeling trophoblast cell-guided uterine spiral artery transformation in the rat. (2022) International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(6):2947.

Vinay Shukla, Jyoti B Kaushal, Rohit Kumar, Pooja Popli, Promod K Agnihotri, Kalyan Mira, Anila Dwivedi*. Microtubule depolymerization attenuates WNT4/CaMKIIα signaling in mouse uterus and leads to implantation failure. (2019) Reproduction 158 (1), 47-59.

Vinay Shukla, Jyoti B Kaushal, Pushplata Sankhwar, Murli Manohar, Anila Dwivedi*. Inhibition of TPPP3 attenuates β-catenin/NF-κB/COX-2 signaling in endometrial stromal cells and impairs decidualization. (2019) Journal of Endocrinology 240, 1-14.

Vinay Shukla, Pooja Popli, Jyoti B Kaushal, Kanchan Gupta, Anila Dwivedi*. Uterine TPPP3 plays important role in embryo implantation via modulation of β-catenin. (2018) Biology of Reproduction 99, 982–999.

Vinay Shukla, Vishal Chandra, P. Sankhwar, Pooja Popli, Jyoti B Kaushal, Vijay K Sirohi, Anila Dwivedi*. Phytoestrogen genistein inhibits EGFR/PI3K/NF-κB activation and induces apoptosis in human endometrial hyperplasial cells. (2015) Royal Society of Chemistry Advances 5, 56075-56085.

NCBI My Bibliography:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/vinay.shukla.1/bibliography/public/

2019                 PhD (Biological Science) Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research- Central Drug Research Institute, India

2012                 MSc (Biotechnology), Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, India

2010                 BSc (Chemistry & Zoology), Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, India

Postdoctoral training:

2024-2026        Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, US (Advisor- Dr. Irina Burd)

2019-2024        Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute for Reproductive and Developmental Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, US (Advisor- Dr. Michael J Soares)

• Society for the Study of Reproduction

• Society for Reproductive Investigation

• International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

• American Society for Reproductive Immunology

• Indian Science Congress Association

• Animal Physiologists Association

• Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility

• Society for Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology