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Overview

Kamal Kumar is affiliated with AiCuris in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Surgery, Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology. Their work spans several subfields including Biological Psychiatry and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research interests cover a range of topics prominently featuring Anesthesia and Pain Management, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Thermal Regulation in Medicine, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism, and Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects.

Recent publications of Kamal Kumar include:

  • Combined morphological and proteome profiling reveals target-independent impairment of cholesterol homeostasis (2021, Cell chemical biology)
  • Identification of a Novel Pseudo-Natural Product Type IV IDO1 Inhibitor Chemotype (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Discovery of Pyrrolidine-2,3-diones as Novel Inhibitors of P. aeruginosa PBP3 (2021, Antibiotics)
  • Nature-inspired and medicinally relevant short peptides (2023, Exploration of Drug Science)
  • Identification of a Monovalent Pseudo-Natural Product Degrader Class Supercharging Degradation of IDO1 by its native E3 KLHDC3 (2024, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])

Kamal Kumar has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable co-authors include Herbert Waldmann, Sonja Sievers, Slava Ziegler, Carsten Strohmann, and Lara Dötsch.

The scientist's work has been published in a variety of venues. These include Research Square, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Angewandte Chemie, Cureus, and Cell chemical biology.

Best Publications

  • Biology-oriented synthesis.

    Stefan Wetzel;Robin S. Bon;Kamal Kumar;Herbert Waldmann

  • Charting, navigating, and populating natural product chemical space for drug discovery.

    Hugo Lachance;Stefan Wetzel;Kamal Kumar;Herbert Waldmann

  • De novo branching cascades for structural and functional diversity in small molecules

    Miguel Garcia-Castro;Lea Kremer;Lea Kremer;Christopher D. Reinkemeier;Christian Unkelbach

  • Synthesis of natural product inspired compound collections.

    Kamal Kumar;Herbert Waldmann

  • The Asymmetric hetero-Diels-Alder Reaction in the Syntheses of Biologically Relevant Compounds

    Vincent Eschenbrenner-Lux;Kamal Kumar;Herbert Waldmann

  • Scaffold Diversity Synthesis and Its Application in Probe and Drug Discovery

    Miguel Garcia-Castro;Stefan Zimmermann;Muthukumar G. Sankar;Kamal Kumar

  • Biology-inspired synthesis of compound libraries

    Markus Kaiser;Stefan Wetzel;Kamal Kumar;Herbert Waldmann

  • An efficient catalyst system for diaryl ether synthesis from aryl chlorides

    Surendra Harkal;Kamal Kumar;Dirk Michalik;Alexander Zapf

  • Engaging Allene-Derived Zwitterions in an Unprecedented Mode of Asymmetric [3+2]-Annulation Reaction

    Muthukumar G. Sankar;Miguel Garcia‐Castro;Christopher Golz;Carsten Strohmann

  • Odorless substitutes for foul-smelling thiols: syntheses and applications

    Manabu Node;Kamal Kumar;Kiyoharu Nishide;Shin-ichi Ohsugi

  • Ligand‐Directed Divergent Synthesis of Carbo‐ and Heterocyclic Ring Systems

    Yen-Chun Lee;Yen-Chun Lee;Kamal Kumar;Herbert Waldmann;Herbert Waldmann

  • Biologie‐orientierte Synthese (BIOS)

    Stefan Wetzel;Robin S. Bon;Kamal Kumar;Herbert Waldmann

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of Natural Product Inspired Tricyclic Benzopyrones by an Organocatalyzed Annulation Reaction

    Herbert Waldmann;Vivek Khedkar;Heiko Dückert;Markus Schürmann

  • Natural product–inspired cascade synthesis yields modulators of centrosome integrity

    Heiko Dückert;Verena Pries;Vivek Khedkar;Sascha Menninger

  • Annulation Reactions of Allene-Derived 1,3-Dipole with 3-Substituted-Chromones: Unusual Recognition of 4π-Component in 3-(N-Aryliminomethyl)chromones through [4 + 3] Annulation

    Kamal Kumar;Rajiv Kapoor;and Ashish Kapur;Mohan Paul S. Ishar

  • Unusual [8 + 2] Annelation in the Reactions of Allenic Ester/Ketone-Derived 1,3-Dipoles with Tropone

    Kamal Kumar;and Ashish Kapur;Mohan Paul S. Ishar

  • Silver catalyzed cascade synthesis of alkaloid ring systems: concise total synthesis of fascaplysin, homofascaplysin C and analogues

    Herbert Waldmann;Luc Eberhardt;Kathrin Wittstein;Kamal Kumar

  • Palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of haloindoles: no need for protecting groups.

    Kamal Kumar;Alexander Zapf;Dirk Michalik;Annegret Tillack

  • Die Synthese von naturstoffinspirierten Verbindungsbibliotheken

    Kamal Kumar;Herbert Waldmann

  • Cascade reaction based synthetic strategies targeting biologically intriguing indole polycycles.

    Maria Gessica Ciulla;Stefan Zimmermann;Stefan Zimmermann;Kamal Kumar

  • Biologically Active Compounds through Catalysis: Efficient Synthesis of N‐(Heteroarylcarbonyl)‐N′‐(arylalkyl)piperazines

    Kamal Kumar;Dirk Michalik;Ivette Garcia Castro;Annegret Tillack

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Waldmann
Herbert Waldmann Max Planck Society
Carsten Strohmann
Carsten Strohmann TU Dortmund University
Alexander Zapf
Alexander Zapf University of Rostock
Annegret Tillack
Annegret Tillack University of Rostock
Markus Schürmann
Markus Schürmann TU Dortmund University
Wei Liu
Wei Liu University of California, Riverside
Matthias Beller
Matthias Beller Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Markus Kaiser
Markus Kaiser University of Duisburg-Essen
Ralf Jackstell
Ralf Jackstell Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Christian Becker
Christian Becker University of Cologne

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