page_title: Pravindra Kumar
section_title: Professional profile
hierarchical_section_title: Pravindra Kumar / Professional profile
caption_attribution_description: Coffea arabica Español: Flores del cafeto (Coffea arabica) English: Coffee Flowers in Plantation of Brazil
context_page_description: Pravindra Kumar is an Indian biophysicist, bioinformatician, biochemist and professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is known for his work on protein-protein interactions, protein engineering and structure-based drug design. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development in 2015, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences.
context_section_description: Kumar focuses his interest on protein engineering and interactions as well as drug design and leads a team of researchers. In 2017, his team worked on Chlorogenic acid, an aromatic compound found naturally in plants like coffea and their biochemical and structural studies using x-ray crystallography techniques revealed that the compound had anti-bacterial properties. The discovery is reported to have opportunities in the development of a new class of antibiotics as the compound clings to the chorismate mutase enzyme in the shikimate pathway which assists in the synthesis of aromatic amino acids and this could inhibit the growth of bacteria. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 117 of them.
caption: Coffee Flowers
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