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Krishna Kumar |
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Professor and Chair of Chemistry
Associate Member, Cancer Center (Tufts-NEMC)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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Chemistry Department
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| Degrees: |
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Ph.D., 1996 Brown University; B.Sc.(Hons.), 1991 St. Stephen's College; Postdoctoral, 1996 The Scripps Research Inst. |
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Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Noncovalent interactions and molecular design applied to biology and materials science; nonnatural amino acids in protein design; protein evolution and modular enzymes; cell-surface engineering; de novo design of globular and membrane proteins; combinatorial chemistry for generating better antibiotics and catalysts.
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| Major Awards: |
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2006 Global Indus Technovator Award (MIT IBC), 2003-2006 DuPont Young Professor Award
E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 2005 Technology Investigation Award
Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, Boston, MA, 2003 MIT Technology Review Magazine TR100 Award
Top 100 Young Innovators in the World, 2002 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2001 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation [Declined], 2000 Guest Professor, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany [Sonderforschungsbereich 424], 1999 TTT (Teaching with Technology) Fellow, Tufts University, 1996-1998 Skaggs Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute, 1995 Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Research, Brown University |
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krishna.kumar@tufts.edu
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| Other websites: |
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http://chem.tufts.edu/faculty/kumar/index.html
http://ase.tufts.edu/chemistry/kumar/group/index.html
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Bioorthogonal Noncovalent Chemistry: Fluorous Phases in Chemical Biology" Nicholas Yoder, Deniz Yüksel, Laila Dafik and Krishna Kumar* Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2006, 10, 576-583.
"Fluorinated Interfaces Drive Self Association of Transmembrane Helices in Lipid Bilayers"
Natascha Naarmann, Basar Bilgiçer, He Meng, Krishna Kumar* and Claudia Steinem*
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 2588-2591.
"A Fluorous Capping Strategy for Fmoc-based Automated and Manual
Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis"
Vittorio Montanari and Krishna Kumar*
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 874-877.
"Selective Protein-Protein Interactions Driven by a Phenylalanine Interface"
Nicholas C. Yoder and Krishna Kumar*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 188-191.
“De Novo Design of Defined Helical Bundles in Membrane Environments” Basar Bilgicer, and Krishna Kumar* Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2004, 101, 15324-15329.
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