Prashant Desai

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Prashant Desai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Polymers and Plastics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Prashant Desai has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 22 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Prashant Desai's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (22 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (15 papers) and Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (10 papers). Prashant Desai is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (22 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (15 papers) and Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (10 papers). Prashant Desai collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Switzerland. Prashant Desai's co-authors include A. S. Abhiraman, Mitchell A. Avery, Amar G. Chittiboyina, Mitchell A. Avery, Harrihar A. Pershadsingh, Theodore W. Kurtz, Stephen C. Benson, Christopher Ho, Jiaming Wang and Nianning Qi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Chemistry of Materials and Macromolecules.

In The Last Decade

Prashant Desai

92 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Identification of Telmisartan as a Unique Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonist With Selective PPARγ–Modulating Activity

2004 927 citations Prashant Desai, Mitchell A. Avery et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Prashant Desai United States	29	1.1k	579	403	395	387	93	3.2k
Michael A. Walters United States	29	2.2k 2.0×	633 1.1×	43 0.1×	1.1k 2.7×	124 0.3×	98	5.0k
Abdus Samad India	25	1.1k 1.0×	208 0.4×	88 0.2×	202 0.5×	110 0.3×	80	2.6k
Mohammad‐Reza Rashidi Iran	42	2.7k 2.4×	118 0.2×	153 0.4×	393 1.0×	45 0.1×	227	5.5k
Kazutaka Higaki Japan	37	1.3k 1.2×	84 0.1×	91 0.2×	305 0.8×	64 0.2×	167	5.0k
Stephen A. Wring United States	31	875 0.8×	186 0.3×	216 0.5×	223 0.6×	52 0.1×	62	3.9k
Takahiro Seki Japan	30	2.5k 2.3×	217 0.4×	32 0.1×	321 0.8×	256 0.7×	59	4.8k
Mi‐Hyun Kim South Korea	34	1.5k 1.4×	311 0.5×	29 0.1×	799 2.0×	71 0.2×	261	4.3k
Xuan-Yu Meng China	19	1.5k 1.4×	906 1.6×	27 0.1×	617 1.6×	199 0.5×	48	3.3k
Hitoshi Hori Japan	33	1.9k 1.8×	76 0.1×	52 0.1×	632 1.6×	183 0.5×	218	4.6k

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Napoli, Joseph A., Michael Reutlinger, Peter Brandl, et al.. (2025). Multitask Deep Learning Models of Combined Industrial Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion Datasets to Improve Generalization. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 22(4). 1892–1900. 3 indexed citations

Faller, Bernard, Susanne Winiwarter, George Chang, et al.. (2019). Prediction of fraction unbound in microsomal and hepatocyte incubations – a comparison of methods across industry data sets (by the IQ in silico ADME working group). The Novartis Repository (Novartis). 1 indexed citations

O’Brien, Kathryn, Divya Tiwari, Curtis A. Engelhart, et al.. (2019). Plasticity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis respiratory chain and its impact on tuberculosis drug development. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4970–4970. 86 indexed citations

MARTINEZ‐GRAU, A., Julie V. Early, Aaron Korkegian, et al.. (2018). Synthesis and biological evaluation of aryl-oxadiazoles as inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 28(10). 1758–1764. 10 indexed citations

Desai, Prashant, Thomas J. Raub, & María‐Jesús Blanco. (2012). How hydrogen bonds impact P-glycoprotein transport and permeability. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 22(21). 6540–6548. 104 indexed citations

Mudra, Daniel R., Kelly E. Desino, & Prashant Desai. (2011). In Silico, In Vitro and In Situ Models to Assess Interplay Between CYP3A and P-gp. Current Drug Metabolism. 12(8). 750–773. 28 indexed citations

Danielson, Matthew L., Prashant Desai, Michael A. Mohutsky, Steven Wrighton, & Markus A. Lill. (2011). Potentially increasing the metabolic stability of drug candidates via computational site of metabolism prediction by CYP2C9: The utility of incorporating protein flexibility via an ensemble of structures. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 46(9). 3953–3963. 20 indexed citations

Na, Byoung‐Kuk, Young‐An Bae, Young-Gun Zo, et al.. (2010). Biochemical Properties of a Novel Cysteine Protease of Plasmodium vivax, Vivapain-4. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 4(10). e849–e849. 21 indexed citations

Pradhan, Anupam, Abhai K. Tripathi, Prashant Desai, et al.. (2009). Structure and function of Plasmodium falciparum malate dehydrogenase: Role of critical amino acids in co-substrate binding pocket. Biochimie. 91(11-12). 1509–1517. 13 indexed citations

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Srivastava, Anuradha, Prasenjit Mukherjee, Prashant Desai, Mitchell A. Avery, & Babu L. Tekwani. (2008). Structural Analysis of Farnesyl Pyrophosphate Synthase from Parasitic Protozoa, a Potential Chemotherapeutic Target. Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets. 8(1). 16–30. 9 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Prasenjit, Prashant Desai, Larry J. Ross, E. Lucile White, & Mitchell A. Avery. (2008). Structure-based virtual screening against SARS-3CLpro to identify novel non-peptidic hits. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 16(7). 4138–4149. 38 indexed citations

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Patny, Akshay, Prashant Desai, & Mitchell A. Avery. (2006). Ligand‐supported homology modeling of the human angiotensin II type 1 (AT₁) receptor: Insights into the molecular determinants of telmisartan binding. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 65(4). 824–842. 24 indexed citations

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Tripathi, Abhai K., Prashant Desai, Anupam Pradhan, et al.. (2004). An α‐proteobacterial type malate dehydrogenase may complement LDH function in Plasmodium falciparum. European Journal of Biochemistry. 271(17). 3488–3502. 35 indexed citations

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Desai, Prashant, et al.. (2002). Activity and conformation of a cyclic heptapeptide possessing the message sequence His-Phe-Arg-Trp of α-melanotropin. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 30(3-4). 187–195. 7 indexed citations

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Datar, Prasanna A., Prashant Desai, Evans C. Coutinho, & K. R. Krishna Iyer. (2002). CoMFA and CoMSIA studies of angiotensin (AT1) receptor antagonists. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 8(10). 290–301. 15 indexed citations

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Desai, Prashant, Evans C. Coutinho, & S. K. Srivastava. (2002). Conformational diversity of T-kinin in DMSO, water and HFA. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 37(2). 135–146. 5 indexed citations

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Sabnis, Yogesh, Philip J. Rosenthal, Prashant Desai, & Mitchell A. Avery. (2002). Homology Modeling of Falcipain-2: Validation,De NovoLigand Design and Synthesis of Novel Inhibitors. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 19(5). 765–774. 35 indexed citations

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Desai, Prashant, et al.. (1999). Structure and properties of melt-extruded laRC-IA (3,4?-ODA 4,4?-ODPA) polyimide fibers. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 73(7). 1215–1222. 12 indexed citations

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Kamath, Shantaram, Evans C. Coutinho, & Prashant Desai. (1999). Calculation of Relative Binding Free Energy Difference of DHFR Inhibitors by a Finite Difference Thermodynamic Integration (FDTI) Approach. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 16(6). 1239–1244. 7 indexed citations

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Desai, Prashant & A. S. Abhiraman. (1988). Fundamental aspects of stress, deformation, and phase transitions in crystallizable polymers: Experiments with poly(ethylene terephthalate) in uniaxial stress fields. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 26(8). 1657–1675. 10 indexed citations

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