Santosh Khedkar's profile
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What I do
Presently working as Post-doctoral researcher in BIDMC/HMS. I am a Computational Medicinal Chemist and use computer programs to solve the chemistry (& biology) problems, particularly related to drug design and discovery.
Affiliations
Past affiliations
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- Position
- Reserach Scientist
- Company
- Piramal Life Sciences (former Nicholas Piramal Res. Center)
- Duration
- 2007 - 2008
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- Position
- PhD (Tech) Student
- Company
- Bombay College of Pharmacy
- Duration
- 2003 - 2007
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- Position
- Research Chemist
- Company
- Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd
- Duration
- 2002 - 2003
- Further information
Location
- City:
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Hub:
- Boston
Interests
Virtual Screening of small organic molecule databases with ligand-based (e.g., similarity or pharmacophore) and receptor structure-based (docking) methods. Structure based drug design. Molecular Dynamics Simulation. QSARs. Quantum mechanical calculations. Molecular Electrostatic Potential maps. Organic synthesis, etc…
Projects
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Publications
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Khedkar S, Malde A, Coutinho E. Design of Inhibitors of the MurF Enzyme of Streptococcus pneumoniae Using Docking, 3D-QSAR, and de Novo Design J. Chem. Inf. Model. (5) , 1839 - 1846 (2007) doi: 10.1021/ci600568u
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Khedkar SA, Malde AK and Coutinho EC. In Silico Screening of Ligand Databases: Methods and Applications Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences , 689-696 (2007)
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Khedkar SA, Malde AK and Coutinho EC.. CoMFA Study of Distamycin Analogs Binding to the Minor-groove of DNA: A Unified Model for Broad-spectrum Activity Journal of Molecular Modeling , 1099-1108 (2007)
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Khedkar SA, Malde AK and Coutinho EC.. Inhibition of methionine-S-adenosyltransferase of M. smegmatis and M. tuberculosis: Homology Modelling, Docking and De novo Inhibitor Design Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design , 151-166 (2007)
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Khedkar SA, Malde AK, Coutinho EC and Srivastava S.. Pharmacophore Modeling in Drug Discovery and Development: An Overview Medicinal Chemistry , 187–197 (2007)
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