Achievements

AWARDS

& SCHOLARSHIPS

- MONBUKAGAKUSHO (MEXT) Honors Scholarship by JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization) in Japan (2015-2016).

- 1st prize in poster presentation in Winter School of Sokendai /Asian CORE Program "Research and Its Challenges in Molecular Science: Fundamentals and State-of-the-Art" (2015) in Okazaki, Japan.

- Gold Medal in Molecular Biology from WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (2009) in Kolkata, India.

JUDGING/REVIEWING EXPERIENCE

Poster presentation Judge in the conference (2022) arranged by North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance

(2022): Reviewer of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, MDPI (IMPACT FACTOR-4.614)

(2022-Present): Reviewer of The Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, PeerJ (IMPACT FACTOR- 3.06)

(2022-Present): Research Topic Coordinator of Frontiers of Molecular Biosciences (IMPACT FACTOR- 6.113)

(2022-Present): Editorial Board Member of European Journal of Biophysics (IMPACT FACTOR-1.733)

PUBLICATION

Arunima Sikdar et al.,, (2023) Efforts toward discovering inhibitors of the SYK SH2–FCER1γ interaction as potential Alzheimer’s disease chemical probes and therapeutics, Alzheimer's Association International Conference
Yuhong Du, William J. Bradshaw, Tina M. Leisner, Joel K. Annor-Gyamfi, Kun Qian, Frances M. Bashore, Arunima Sikdar, Felix O. Nwogbo, Andrey A. Ivanov, Stephen V. Frye, Opher Gileadi, Paul E. Brennan, Allan I. Levey, Alison D. Axtman, Kenneth H. Pearce, Haian Fu, Vittorio L. Katis (2023) “Development of FERM domain protein-protein interaction inhibitors for MSN and CD44 as a potential therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer’s disease”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Discovery of FERM domain protein–protein interaction inhibitors for MSN and CD44 as a potential therapeutic approach for Alzheimer’s disease - Journal of Biological Chemistry (jbc.org)

Frances M. Bashore1, Vittorio L. Katis, Yuhong Du, Arunima Sikdar, Suzanne Doolen, Dongxue Wang, William J. Bradshaw, Opher Gileadi, Paul E. Brennan, Tina M. Leisner, Stacey J. Rizzo, Karolina Rygiel, Gregory Cary, Swati Mishra, Andy Williams, Jessica E. Young, Kenneth H. Pearce, Haian Fu, Alison D. Axtman* (2023) “Characterization of covalent inhibitors that disrupt the interaction between SYK tandem SH2 domains and FCER1G phospho-peptide” Characterization of covalent inhibitors that disrupt the interaction between the tandem SH2 domains of SYK and FCER1G phosphoITAM | bioRxiv

Sikdar et al., (2021) “Reviewing Antiviral Research Against Viruses Causing Human Diseases - A Structure Guided Approach”, Current Molecular Pharmacology, Bentham Science, 2021 Aug. 10.2174/1874467214666210804152836

Michael L. Mohler, Arunima Sikdar, Suriyan Ponnusamy, Dong-Jin Hwang, Yali He, Duane D. Miller and Ramesh Narayanan (2021), "An Overview of Next-Generation Androgen Receptor-Targeted Therapeutics in Development for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer", International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021 Feb 20. IJMS | Free Full-Text | An Overview of Next-Generation Androgen Receptor Targeted Therapeutics in Development for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer (mdpi.com)

M.Yagi-Utsumi and A. Sikdar et al. (2020) "Supramolecular Tholos-Like Architecture Constituted by Archaeal Proteins Without Functional Annotation", Sci Rep. 2020 Jan 30; 10(1):1540. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58371-2

Sikdar et al. (2018) "Conversion of functionally undefined homopentameric protein PbaA into a proteasome activator by mutational modification of its C-terminal segment conformation", Protein Eng Des Sel. 31(1):29- 36. https://academic.oup.com/peds/article/31/1/29/4781309

Sikdar et al. (2014) "Crystal structure of archaeal homolog of proteasome-assembly chaperone PbaA",Biochem Biophys. Res. Commun, 453, 493-497. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25285636/