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Shaun R. Stauffer

Shaun R. Stauffer

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D-Index
42
Citations
6625
World Ranking
17513
National Ranking
4286

Overview

Shaun R. Stauffer is affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Medicine. Subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Immunology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Oncology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's main research topics cover areas such as Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Protein Degradation and Inhibitors, and interferon and immune responses.

Recent published papers by Shaun R. Stauffer include:

  • Endophenotype-based in silico network medicine discovery combined with insurance record data mining identifies sildenafil as a candidate drug for Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Nature Aging
  • Structure-Based Optimization of ML300-Derived, Noncovalent Inhibitors Targeting the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 3CL Protease (SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro), 2021, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Discovery of WD Repeat-Containing Protein 5 (WDR5)-MYC Inhibitors Using Fragment-Based Methods and Structure-Based Design, 2020, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • WDR5 represents a therapeutically exploitable target for cancer stem cells in glioblastoma, 2023, Genes & Development
  • Small Molecule-Based Prodrug Targeting Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer, 2021, Cancers

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shaun R. Stauffer include Christopher M. Goins, Jesse A. Coker, Joseph Alvarado, Jonathan D. Macdonald, and Christopher G. Hubert.

Stauffer's work is published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Cancer Research, Nature Aging, and Current Research in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery.

Best Publications

  • Pyrazole Ligands: Structure−Affinity/Activity Relationships and Estrogen Receptor-α-Selective Agonists

    Shaun R. Stauffer;Christopher J. Coletta;Rosanna Tedesco;Gisele Nishiguchi

  • High turnover number and rapid, room-temperature amination of chloroarenes using saturated carbene ligands.

    Shaun R. Stauffer;Sunwoo Lee;James P. Stambuli;Sheila I. Hauck

  • Novel structural templates for estrogen-receptor ligands and prospects for combinatorial synthesis of estrogens

    Brian E Fink;Deborah S Mortensen;Shaun R Stauffer;Zachary D Aron

  • Copper-facilitated Suzuki reactions: application to 2-heterocyclic boronates.

    James Z Deng;Daniel V Paone;Anthony T Ginnetti;Hideki Kurihara

  • Discovery, synthesis, and structure-based optimization of a series of N -(tert -Butyl)-2-(N -arylamido)-2-(pyridin-3-yl) acetamides (ML188) as potent noncovalent small molecule inhibitors of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) 3CL protease

    Jon Jacobs;Valerie Grum-Tokars;Ya Zhou;Mark Turlington

  • Discovery of novel allosteric modulators of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 reveals chemical and functional diversity and in vivo activity in rat behavioral models of anxiolytic and antipsychotic activity.

    Alice L. Rodriguez;Mark D. Grier;Carrie K. Jones;Elizabeth J. Herman

  • Functional Impact of Allosteric Agonist Activity of Selective Positive Allosteric Modulators of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 5 in Regulating Central Nervous System Function

    Meredith J. Noetzel;Jerri M. Rook;Paige N. Vinson;Hyekyung P. Cho

  • Palladium-catalyzed arylation of ethyl cyanoacetate. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer as a tool for reaction discovery.

    Shaun R. Stauffer;Neil A. Beare;James P. Stambuli;John F. Hartwig

  • Advancing Biological Understanding and Therapeutics Discovery with Small Molecule Probes

    Stuart L. Schreiber;Stuart L. Schreiber;Joanne D. Kotz;Min Li;Min Li;Jeffrey Aubé

  • Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) as a High-Throughput Assay for Coupling Reactions. Arylation of Amines as a Case Study

    Shaun R. Stauffer;John F. Hartwig

  • Discovery of N-(benzo[1,2,3]triazol-1-yl)-N-(benzyl)acetamido)phenyl) carboxamides as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) 3CLpro inhibitors: identification of ML300 and noncovalent nanomolar inhibitors with an induced-fit binding.

    Mark Turlington;Aspen Chun;Aspen Chun;Sakshi Tomar;Aimee Eggler

  • Estrogen pyrazoles: defining the pyrazole core structure and the orientation of substituents in the ligand binding pocket of the estrogen receptor.

    Shaun R Stauffer;Ying Huang;Christopher J Coletta;Rosanna Tedesco

  • Estrogen receptor ligands

    John A. Katzenellenbogen;Benita S. Katzenellenbogen;Brian E. Fink;Shaun R. Stauffer

  • First demonstration of cerebrospinal fluid and plasma A beta lowering with oral administration of a beta-site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme 1 inhibitor in nonhuman primates.

    Sethu Sankaranarayanan;Marie A. Holahan;Dennis Colussi;Ming-Chih Crouthamel

  • Triarylpyrazoles with basic side chains: development of pyrazole-based estrogen receptor antagonists.

    Shaun R Stauffer;Ying R Huang;Zachary D Aron;Christopher J Coletta

  • High-Affinity Small-Molecule Inhibitors of the Menin-Mixed Lineage Leukemia (MLL) Interaction Closely Mimic a Natural Protein–Protein Interaction

    Shihan He;Timothy J. Senter;Jonathan Pollock;Changho Han

  • Unique Signaling Profiles of Positive Allosteric Modulators of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 5 Determine Differences in In Vivo Activity

    Jerri M. Rook;Meredith J. Noetzel;Wendy A. Pouliot;Thomas M. Bridges

  • Potentiation of M1 Muscarinic Receptor Reverses Plasticity Deficits and Negative and Cognitive Symptoms in a Schizophrenia Mouse Model.

    A Ghoshal;J M Rook;J W Dickerson;G N Roop

  • Targeting zoonotic viruses: Structure-based inhibition of the 3C-like protease from bat coronavirus HKU4--The likely reservoir host to the human coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

    Sarah E. St. John;Sakshi Tomar;Shaun R. Stauffer;Andrew D. Mesecar

  • Solid-Phase Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted Pyrazoles, Novel Ligands for the Estrogen Receptor

    Shaun R. Stauffer;John A. Katzenellenbogen

  • Investigating Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 Allosteric Modulator Cooperativity, Affinity, and Agonism: Enriching Structure-Function Studies and Structure-Activity Relationships

    Karen J. Gregory;Meredith J. Noetzel;Jerri M. Rook;Paige N. Vinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig W. Lindsley
Craig W. Lindsley Vanderbilt University
P. Jeffrey Conn
P. Jeffrey Conn Vanderbilt University
Colleen M. Niswender
Colleen M. Niswender Vanderbilt University
Carrie K. Jones
Carrie K. Jones Vanderbilt University
C. David Weaver
C. David Weaver Vanderbilt University
Harold G. Selnick
Harold G. Selnick MSD (United States)
Joseph P. Vacca
Joseph P. Vacca MSD (United States)
Heidi E. Hamm
Heidi E. Hamm Vanderbilt University
John A. Katzenellenbogen
John A. Katzenellenbogen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig University of California, Berkeley

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