Pradeep Kumar

Employment

• Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Assiatant Professor
  2018 - Present
• Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Instructor
  2011 - Present
• National Institutes of Health Visiting Fellow
  2006 - 2011

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

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Publications (33)

• SuFEx-based antitubercular compound irreversibly inhibits Pks13.
  Nature 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09286-3
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• The KasA inhibitor JSF-3285 improves the sterilizing activity of bedaquiline-pretomanid-containing regimens in a mouse model of tuberculosis.
  Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2025 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00130-25
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• Evolution of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Menaquinone Biosynthesis.
  Journal of medicinal chemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c03156
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• Divergent transcriptional regulation of redox-homeostasis and permeability modulate rifampicin tolerance and sensitivity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Nature communications 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67152-2
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• Identification of an antibiotic from an HTS targeting EF-Tu:tRNA interaction: a prospective topical treatment for MRSA skin infections.
  Applied and environmental microbiology 2024 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02046-24
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• A comprehensive update to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv reference genome.
  Nature communications 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34853-x
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• Origin and Dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Subpopulations That Predictably Generate Drug Tolerance and Resistance.
  mBio 2022 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02795-22
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• Bayesian Modeling and Intrabacterial Drug Metabolism Applied to Drug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
  ACS infectious diseases 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00265
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• Evidence that Maackia amurensis seed lectin (MASL) exerts pleiotropic actions on oral squamous cells with potential to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease progression.
  Experimental cell research 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2021.112594
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• Compromised base excision repair pathway in Mycobacterium tuberculosis imparts superior adaptability in the host.
  PLoS pathogens 2021 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009452
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