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Employment (4)

Creighton University: Omaha, Nebraska, US

2023-06-01 to present | Associate Professor (Pharmacy Sciences)
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Aurijit Sarkar

High Point University: High Point, NC, US

2016-03-01 to 2023-05-31 | Assistant Professor (Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences)
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Aurijit Sarkar

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy: Richmond, VA, US

2012-09-01 to 2016-02-29 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Medicinal Chemistry)
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Aurijit Sarkar

University of Dundee College of Life Sciences: Dundee, Dundee, GB

2010-09-01 to 2012-08-31 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery)
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Aurijit Sarkar

Education and qualifications (1)

Virginia Commonwealth University: Richmond, VA, US

2005-08-24 to 2010-08-10 | PhD (Medicinal Chemistry)
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Aurijit Sarkar

Funding (4)

Establishing the Translational Potential of Aminopyrimidines as Penicillin Enhancers Against MRSA

2022-07 to 2023-06 | Grant
North Carolina Biotechnology Center (Durham, North Carolina, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2022-FLG-3830

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Aurijit Sarkar

New tools to help cure Infective Endocarditis

2022-04-01 to 2023-06-01 | Grant
American Heart Association (Dallas, US)
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959516

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American Heart Association

Towards Targeting Antibiotic Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

2019-02 to 2020-01 | Award
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (Arlington, Virginia, US)
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Aurijit Sarkar

Molecular modeling of ABCG2 efflux pumps

Grant
Virginia Academy of Science (Richmond, VA, US)
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Aurijit Sarkar

Works (23)

A benzoxazolyl urea inhibits VraS and enhances antimicrobials against vancomycin intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
2025-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Emerson P. Heckler; Liaqat Ali; Shrijan Bhattarai; Brittnee Cagle-White; Nickalus C. Smith; Erik D. Moore; Robert A. Coover; May H. Abdel Aziz; Aurijit Sarkar
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A benzoxazolylurea inhibits VraS and enhances antimicrobials against vancomycin intermediate-resistantStaphylococcus aureus

2023-09-03 | Preprint
Contributors: Emerson P. Heckler; Liaqat Ali; Shrijan Bhattarai; Brittnee Cagle-White; Nicklaus Smith; Robert A. Coover; May H. Abdel Aziz; Aurijit Sarkar
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β-Lactamase Suppression as a Strategy to Target Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Proof of Concept

ACS Omega
2022-12-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Payton M. Thomas; Margaret A. Deming; Aurijit Sarkar
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Pyrimidine-2-amines increase susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to penicillin G

2022-03-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Payton Thomas; Margaret Deming; Aurijit Sarkar
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Challenges in Drug Discovery for Intracellular Bacteria

Pathogens
2021-09-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2076-0817
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Aurijit Sarkar
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Phenylindolylmethyldiaminopyrimidines (PIDAPs) as Potent Antimicrobials Against Staphylococcus Aureus

2021-01-18 | Other
Contributors: Margaret Deming; Alatheia King; Robert A Coover; Cale D Fahrenholtz; Aurijit Sarkar
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Enabling design of screening libraries for antibiotic discovery by modeling ChEMBL data

European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
2020-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Aurijit Sarkar
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Resisting resistance: gearing up for war

MedChemComm
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Aurijit Sarkar; Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova
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Understanding Water and Its Many Roles in Biological Structure: Ways to Exploit a Resource for Drug Discovery

Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology
2016 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

A Simple Method for Discovering Druggable, Specific Glycosaminoglycan-Protein Systems. Elucidation of Key Principles from Heparin/Heparan Sulfate-Binding Proteins

PLOS one
2015 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Chemoenzymatically Prepared Heparan Sulfate Containing Rare 2-O-Sulfonated Glucuronic Acid Residues

ACS Chemical Biology
2015 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

To Hit or Not to Hit, That Is the Question – Genome-wide Structure-Based Druggability Predictions for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Proteins

PLOS one
2015 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Allosteric inhibition of human factor XIa: discovery of monosulfated benzofurans as a class of promising inhibitors

Journal of medicinal chemistry
2014 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Designing “High-Affinity, High-Specificity” Glycosaminoglycan Sequences Through Computerized Modeling

Methods in molecular biology
2014 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Allosteric Competitive Inhibitors of the Glucose-1-phosphate Thymidylyltransferase (RmlA) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

ACS chemical biology
2013 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Designing allosteric regulators of thrombin. Exosite 2 features multiple subsites that can be targeted by sulfated small molecules for inducing inhibition

Journal of medicinal chemistry
2013 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Computational analysis of structure-based interactions and ligand properties can predict efflux effects on antibiotics

European journal of medicinal chemistry
2012 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Applying Induced Fit in Drug Discovery: Square Pegs and Round Holes?

Current topics in medicinal chemistry
2011 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

DrugPred: a structure-based approach to predict protein druggability developed using an extensive nonredundant data set

Journal of chemical information and modeling
2011 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Premature activation of the paramyxovirus fusion protein before target cell attachment with corruption of the viral fusion machinery

Journal of Biological Chemistry
2011 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Hydrophobicity–shake flasks, protein folding and drug discovery

Current topics in medicinal chemistry
2010 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Structure–activity relationship (SAR) studies of 3-(2-amino-ethyl)-5-(4-ethoxy-benzylidene)-thiazolidine-2, 4-dione: Development of potential substrate-specific ERK1/2 inhibitors

Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters
2009 | Journal article
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Aurijit Sarkar

Book Review of Computational Drug Design. A Guide for Computational and Medicinal Chemists

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
2007 | Book review
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Aurijit Sarkar

Peer review (8 reviews for 7 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACS infectious diseases. (1)
Review activity for American Heart Association (1)
Review activity for European journal of pharmaceutical sciences. (1)
Review activity for In silico pharmacology. (1)
Review activity for Journal of chemical information and modeling. (1)
Review activity for Molecules. (1)
Review activity for PloS one. (2)