Saniya Virani

Chemistry, PhD.


Curriculum vitae



Department of Chemistry

Purdue University



Publications


MemTAD: Membrane Targeted Degradation of immune checkpoints using small molecule degraders


Ahad Hossain, Ruilin Yu, Pooja Saklani, Guang Yang, Saniya Virani, Lu Bai, Mayuri Patil, Krushna Hembram, Katherine Walker, Jesse Fu, Sam Alakhras, Gaurav Chopra

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Targeting DGAT2 degradation for reducing lipid droplets to combat Alzheimer’s Disease


Jitika Rajpoot, Ahad Hossain, Victoria Wendt, Pooja Saklani, Krushna C. Hembram, Palak Manchanda, Kanchan Bisht, Kaushik Sharma, Evangelia Paouri, Guang Yang, Yihao Chen, Lu Bai, Saniya Virani, Jessie Fu, Alexandra Wildridge, Mayuri Patil, Harshit Arora, Dimitrios Davalos, Scot J. Stone, Gaurav Chopr

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State and Memory is All You Need for Robust and Reliable AI Agents


Matthew Muhoberac, Atharva Parikh, Nirvi Vakharia, Saniya Virani, Aco Radujevic, Savannah Wood, Meghav Verma, Dimitri Metaxotos, Jeyaraman Soundararajan, Thierry Masquelin, Alexander G. Godfrey, Sean Gardner, Dobrila Rudnicki, Sam Michael, Gaurav Chopra

arXiv, 2025


Alkynyl nicotinamides show antileukemic activity in drug-resistant acute myeloid leukemia


Baskar Ramdas, Neetu Dayal, Ruchi Pandey, Elizabeth Larocque, Rahul Kanumuri, Santhosh Kumar Pasupuleti, Sheng Liu, Chrysi Kanellopoulou, Elizabeth Fei Yin Chu, Rodrigo Mohallem, Saniya Virani, Gaurav Chopra, .... Herman O Sintim, Reuben Kapur

Journal of Clinical Investigation , vol. 134(12), 2024, pp. e169245


Variability in phenylalanine side chain conformations facilitates broad substrate tolerance of fatty acid binding in cockroach milk proteins


Partha Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, KanagaVijayan Dhanabalan, Saniya Virani, Amber S Hopf-Jannasch, Joshua B Benoit, Gaurav Chopra, Ramaswamy Subramanian

PLoS One, vol. 18(6), 2023, pp. e0280009


Synthesis and evaluation of 2, 5-diamino and 2, 5-dianilinomethyl pyridine analogues as potential CXCR4 antagonists


Saniya Virani, Zhongxing Liang, Younghyoun Yoon, Hyunsuk Shim, Suazette R Mooring

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 29(2), 2019, pp. 220-224


Synthesis and evaluation of 2, 5-furan, 2, 5-thiophene and 3, 4-thiophene-based derivatives as CXCR4 inhibitors


Theresa Gaines, Francisco Garcia, Saniya Virani, Zhongxing Liang, Younghyoun Yoon, Yoon Hyeun Oum, Hyunsuk Shim, Suazette Reid Mooring

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 181, 2019, p. 111562

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