Dr. Belani Jitendra D. Belani,

Contact Dr. Belani

901 Walnut Street
Suite 919
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 503-4751

Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Graduate School: University of California, Irvine

University Appointment
Assistant Professor, August 1, 2012

Professional Organizations
American Chemical Society, 2007 - Present
Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007 - Present

Research/Clinical Interests
The focus of the laboratory is on the rational design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel small molecules with a potential to prevent and/or treat cancer and diabetes. The lab is also interested in understanding mechanisms of anti-cancer activity of the novel agents and works in collaboration with Kimmel Cancer Center.

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. Synthetic silvestrol analogues as potent and selective protein synthesis inhibitors
  2. Cholesterol through the looking glass: Ability of its enantiomer also to elicit homeostatic responses
  3. Correction: Specificity of cholesterol and analogs to modulate BK channels points to direct sterol-channel protein interactions
  4. Specificity of cholesterol and analogs to modulate BK channels points to direct sterol-channel protein interactions
  5. A concise synthesis of ent-cholesterol
  6. Corrigendum to "Multidrug resistance protein 1 is not associated to detergent-resistant membranes" [Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 355 (2007) 1025-1030] (DOI:10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.02.075)
  7. Substrate chirality and specificity of diacylglycerol kinases and the multisubstrate lipid kinase
  8. Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of a series of thioamides as non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
  9. Sterol transfer by ABCG5 and ABCG8: In vitro assay and reconstitution
  10. Dual roles for cholesterol in mammalian cells
  11. Role of chirality in peptide-induced formation of cholesterol-rich domains