DR. SUDHIR KUMAR SINHA
 
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Scientist F & Scientist in Charge
Drug Target Discovery & Development Division
Central Drug Research Institute
LUCKNOW

 
Educational qualifications M.Sc., Ph.D.
Date of Birth

August 15, 1955

E mail sudhir_sinha@cdri.res.in
 
AREA OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION
 

Biochemistry and immunology of mycobacterial infections.

 
ACADEMIC AWARDS/ HONOURS
 
JALMA Trust Fund Oration Award' (1995) of Indian Council of Medical Research.
Acworth Leprosy Hospital Research Society Award' (1985) of Indian Association of Leprologists.
British Council Fellowship (1982).
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
Over 75 original papers in SCI Journals.
 
PATENTS
 

10 National patents.

PRESENT AREA OF ACTIVITY
 

Tuberculosis therapeutics and High-throughput Screening

 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
AN Gaikwad, Sudhir Sinha, 2008. Determinants of natural immunity against tuberculosis in an endemic setting: factors operating at the level of macrophage- Mycobacterium tuberculosis interaction. Clinical and Experimental Immunology 151, 414-22.
S Ghosh , P Tiwari , S Pandey, AK Misra, V Chaturvedi, A Gaikwad, S Bhatnagar, Sudhir Sinha, 2008. Synthesis and evaluation of antitubercular activity of glycosyl thio- and sulfonyl acetamide derivatives. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 18:4002-5.
MK Parai, G Panda, V Chaturvedi, YK Manju, Sudhir Sinha, 2008. Thiophene containing triarylmethanes as antitubercular agents. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 18, 289-92.
V Chaturvedi, BK Girdhar, U Sengupta, Sudhir Sinha, 2007. Semi-quantitative detection of Mycobacterium leprae antigens in skin scrapings: Suitability as a laboratory aid for field diagnosis of leprosy. Transactions of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 101, 699-706.
SK Gupta, BS Sisodia, Sudhir Sinha, K Hajela, S Naik, A K Shasany, A Dube, 2007. Proteomic approach for identification and characterization of novel immunostimulatory proteins from soluble antigens of Leishmania donovani promastigotes. Proteomics 7, 816–823.
M Saquib, MK Gupta, R Sagar, YS Prabhakar, AK Shaw, R Kumar, PR Maulik, A Gaikwad, Sudhir Sinha, AK Srivastava, V Chaturvedi, R Srivastava, BS Srivastava, 2007. C-3 alkyl/arylalkyl1-2,3-dideoxy hex-2-enopyranosides as antitubercular agents: synthesis, biological evaluation and QSAR study. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 50, 2942-50.
RP Tripathi, N Saxena, VK Tiwari, SS Verma, V Chaturvedi, YK Manju YK, AK Srivastava, A Gaikwad, Sudhir Sinha, 2006. Synthesis and antitubercular activity of substituted phenylmethyl- and pyridylmethyl amines. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry 14, 8186-96.
Sudhir Sinha, K Kosalai, S Arora, A Namane, P Sharma, AN Gaikwad, P Brodin, ST Cole, 2005. Immunogenic membrane-associated proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed by proteomics. Microbiology 151, 2411-9.
Sudhir Sinha, S Kannan, B Nagaraju, U Sengupta, MD Gupte, 2004. Utility of serodiagnostic tests for leprosy: a study in an endemic population in South India. Leprosy Review 75, 266-73.
Sudhir Sinha, S Arora, K Kosalai, A Namane, A S Pym, ST Cole, 2002. Proteome analysis of the plasma membrane of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Comparative and Functional Genomics 3, 470-483.
J Mehrotra, A Mittal, AK Rastogi, AK Jaiswal, NK Bhandari, Sudhir Sinha, 1999. Antigenic definition of plasma membrane proteins of BCG: Predominant activation of human T cells by low molecular weight integral proteins. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology 50, 411-9.
RJ Wilkinson, KA Wilkinson, S Jurcevic, A Hills, Sudhir Sinha, U Sengupta, DNJ Lockwood, K Katoch, D Altman, J Ivanyi, 1999. Specificity and function of immunogenic peptides from the 35- kilodalton protein of Mycobacterium leprae. Infection and Immunity 67, 1501-4.
J Mehrotra, A Mittal, MS Dhindsa, Sudhir Sinha, 1997. Fractionation of mycobacterial integral membrane proteins by continuous elution SDS-PAGE reveals the immunodominance of low molecular weight subunits for human T cells. Clinical and Experimental Immunology 109, 446-50.
D Bisht, J Mehrotra, MS Dhindsa, NB Singh, Sudhir Sinha, 1996. A Major T cell inducing cytosolic 23 kDa protein antigen of the vaccine candidate Mycobacterium habana is superoxide dismutase. Microbiology 142, 1375-83.
J Mehrotra, D Bisht, VD Tiwari, Sudhir Sinha, 1995. Serological distinction of integral plasma membrane proteins as a class of mycobacterial antigens and their relevance for human T cell activation. Clinical and Experimental Immunology 102, 626-34.