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Ajoy Basak
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Latest papers
Oral and Non-Oral Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs with PCSK9 and Other Biomolecules as Targets: Present Status and Future Prospects.
Biomolecules · 2025 · first author
Proteins and proteases of Prader-Willi syndrome: a comprehensive review and perspectives.
Bioscience reports · 2022 · senior author
Ser422 phosphorylation blocks human Tau cleavage by caspase-3: Biochemical implications to Alzheimer's Disease.
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters · 2017 · senior author
Latest funding
- $125,000
Chemical synthesis and rationale design of novel peptide and nonpeptide based small molecule inhibitors of SKI-1
NSERC · 2009 · Principal investigator
- $40,000
Chemical synthesis and rationale design of novel peptide and nonpeptide based small molecule inhibitors of SKI-1
NSERC · 2007 · Principal investigator
- $60,000
Development and synthesis of cell transportable peptide and peptidomimetic inhibitors of subtilisin-kexin isozyme 1
NSERC · 2003 · Principal investigator
39 publications.
Oral and Non-Oral Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs with PCSK9 and Other Biomolecules as Targets: Present Status and Future Prospects.
Basak A
Proteins and proteases of Prader-Willi syndrome: a comprehensive review and perspectives.
Basak S, Basak A
Ser422 phosphorylation blocks human Tau cleavage by caspase-3: Biochemical implications to Alzheimer's Disease.
Sandhu P, Naeem MM, Lu C, Kumarathasan P, Gomes J, Basak A
Calcium role in human carcinogenesis: a comprehensive analysis and critical review of literature.
Kadio B, Yaya S, Basak A, Djè K, Gomes J, Mesenge C
Blood metal levels and third trimester maternal plasma matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs).
Au F, Bielecki A, Blais E, Fisher M, Cakmak S, Basak A, Gomes J, Arbuckle TE, Fraser WD, Vincent R, Kumarathasan P
Characterization of multiple nestin isoforms in the goldfish brain.
Venables MJ, Navarro-Martín L, Basak A, Baum BR, Zhang D, Trudeau VL
Post-Translational Protein Modifications of Rare and Unconventional Types: Implications in Functions and Diseases.
Basak S, Lu C, Basak A
LDL-R promoting activity of peptides derived from human PCSK9 catalytic domain (153-421): design, synthesis and biochemical evaluation.
Alghamdi RH, O'Reilly P, Lu C, Gomes J, Lagace TA, Basak A
Enediynyl peptides and iso-coumarinyl methyl sulfones as inhibitors of proprotein convertases PCSK8/SKI-1/S1P and PCSK4/PC4: Design, synthesis and biological evaluations.
Basak A, Goswami M, Rajkumar A, Mitra T, Majumdar S, O'Reilly P, Bdour HM, Trudeau VL, Basak A
Early expression of aromatase and the membrane estrogen receptor GPER in neuromasts reveals a role for estrogens in the development of the frog lateral line system.
Hamilton CK, Navarro-Martin L, Neufeld M, Basak A, Trudeau VL
Chemical synthesis and rationale design of novel peptide and nonpeptide based small molecule inhibitors of SKI-1
Principal investigators: Basak, Ajoy
Chemical synthesis and rationale design of novel peptide and nonpeptide based small molecule inhibitors of SKI-1
Principal investigators: Basak, Ajoy
Development and synthesis of cell transportable peptide and peptidomimetic inhibitors of subtilisin-kexin isozyme 1
Principal investigators: Basak, Ajoy
Elucidating the Roles of Proprotein Convertases in Obesity: A Genomics and Proteomics Combined Approach
Principal investigators: Mbikay, Majambu
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
- Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Biology
Co-authors at University of Ottawa, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
James Gomes
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
4 shared papers, latest 2017
Daniel Figeys
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Nongnuj Tanphaichitr
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Arezu Jahani-Asl
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Mandy Fisher
Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2016
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