Vishal Rai

Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Professor
Phone: +91 755 269 1339, 669 1339
vrai@iiserb.ac.in

  • Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2003-2008 (Supervisor: Prof. I. N. N. Namboothiri)
  • M.Sc.: Banaras Hindu University, India, 2001-2003
  • B.Sc.: Banaras Hindu University, India, 1998-2001

  • Awards and Fellowships
  • DAE Young Scientist Award, DAE-BRNS, India 2012.
  • Young Scientist Award by RSC-WIS, India 2012.
  • Awarded Ramanujan fellowship, DST, India 2011.
  • Awarded MITACS Elevate postdoctoral fellowship, MITACS, Canada 2011.
  • Awarded Senior Research fellowship, CSIR, India 2005-2008.
  • Awarded Junior Research fellowship, CSIR, India 2003-2005.
  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, 2003.
  • # Authors Title Journals Year
    1 Ankita Bal
    Shivam Kumar Singh
    Tanushree Kashyap
    Vishal Rai
    Linchpin-directed precise labeling of lysine in native proteins, purification, and analysis Methods in Enzymology 2022
    2 Tularam Sahu
    Maheshwerreddy Chilamari
    Vishal Rai
    Protein inspired chemically orthogonal imines for linchpin directed precise and modular labeling of lysine in proteins Chemical Communications 2022
    3 Tularam Sahu
    Mohan Kumar
    Sajeev T. K.
    Manas Joshi
    Ram Kumar Mishra
    Vishal Rai
    Residue-specific N-terminal glycine to aldehyde transformation renders analytically pure single-site labeled proteins Chemical Communications 2022
    4 Neelesh C. Reddy
    Rajib Molla
    Pralhad N. Joshi
    Sajeev T. K.
    Ipsita Basu
    Jyotsna Kawadkar
    Neetu Kalra
    Ram Kumar Mishra
    Suman Chakrabarty
    Sanjeev Shukla
    Vishal Rai
    Traceless cysteine-linchpin enables precision engineering of lysine in native proteins Nature Communications ( Open Access from 2016) 2022
    5 Mohan Kumar
    Neelesh C. Reddy
    Vishal Rai
    Chemical technologies for precise protein bioconjugation enabling biology and medicine Chemical Communications 2021
    6 Ramesh A
    Kalyani Thakur
    Vishal Rai
    Reactivity and selectivity principles in native protein bioconjugation The Chemical Record 2021
    7 Dattatraya Gautam Rawale
    Kalyani Thakur
    Pranav Sreekumar
    Sajeev T K
    Ramesh A
    Srinivasa Rao Adusumalli
    Ram Kumar Mishra
    Vishal Rai
    Linchpins empower promiscuous electrophiles to enable site-selective modification of histidine and aspartic acid in proteins Chemical Science 2021
    8 Neelesh C. Reddy
    Mohan Kumar
    Rajib Molla
    Vishal Rai
    Chemical methods for modification of proteins Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2020
    9 Srinivasa Rao Adusumalli
    Dattatraya Gautam Rawale
    Kalyani Thakur
    Landa Purushottam
    Neelesh C. Reddy
    Neetu Kalra
    Sanjeev Shukla
    Vishal Rai
    Chemoselective and site-selective lysine-directed lysine modification enables single-site labeling of native proteins Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020
    10 Landa Purushottam
    Unnikrishnan V B
    Dattatraya G. Rawale
    Mansi Gujrati
    Surya Dev Mishra
    Sajeev T K
    Neelesh C. Reddy
    Srinivasa Rao Adusumalli
    Ram Kumar Mishra
    Vishal Rai
    Single amino acid Gly-tag enables metal free protein purification Chemical Science 2020
    11 Pralhad N Joshi
    Vishal Rai
    Single-site labeling of histidine in proteins, on-demand reversibility, and traceless metal-free protein purification Chemical Communications 2019
    12 K. Thakur
    D. G. Rawale
    V. Rai
    Chemical methods for selective labeling of proteins Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019
    13 A. Sengupta
    G. Biswas
    V. Rai
    S. K. Mandal
    A. Sarkar
    M. Mukherjee
    R. Goyal
    S. Chatterjee
    S. Kumari
    J. Sivaccumar
    M. Chilamari
    G. V. Dhoke
    A. Ansari
    N. Gupta
    M. Roy
    S. Roy
    S. Sengupta
    Computationally designed antibody-drug conjugates self-assembled via affinity ligands Nat. Biomed. Eng. 2019
    14 Srinivasa R Adusumalli
    Landa Purushottam
    Single-site glycine-specific labeling of proteins Nature Communications ( Open Access from 2016) 2019
    15 Neelesh C. Reddy
    Rohith Singudas
    Vishal Rai
    Sensitivity booster for mass detection enables unambiguous analysis of peptides, proteins, antibodies, and protein conjugates Chemical Communications 2019
    16 R. K. Mishra
    N. Kalra
    R. Paul
    P. Tripathi
    U. Singh
    D. G. Rawale
    S. R. Adusumalli
    S. Shukla
    Vishal Rai
    Single-site labeling of native proteins enabled by a chemoselective and site-selective chemical technology Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018
    17 D. G. Rawale
    S. R. Adusumalli
    Vishal Rai
    Aldehyde can switch chemoselectivity of electrophiles in the protein labeling Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2018
    18 Sanjeev Shukla
    Neetu Kalra
    Maheshwerreddy Chilamari
    Vishal Rai
    Single-site labeling of lysine in proteins through a metal-free multicomponent approach Chemical Communications 2018
    19 Maheshwerreddy Chilamari
    Landa Purushottam
    Vishal Rai
    Chemoselective and site-selective peptide and native protein modification enabled by aldehyde auto-oxidation Chemical Communications 2017
    20 Landa Purushottam
    Maheshwerreddy Chilamari
    Vishal Rai
    Site-selective labeling of native proteins by a multicomponent approach Chemistry - A European Journal 2017
    21 Vishal Rai
    Pralhad Namdev Joshi
    Landa Purushottam
    Nirmal K Das
    Saptarshi Mukherjee
    Protein self-assembly induces promiscuous nucleophilic biocatalysis in Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) reaction RSC Advances 2016
    22 Rohith Singudas
    Srinivasa Rao Adusumalli
    Pralhad Namdev Joshi
    A Phthalimidation Protocol That Follows Protein Defined Parameters Chemical Communications 2015
    23 Benjamin Rotstein
    Small Heterocycles in Multicomponent Reactions Chemical Reviews 2014
    24 Maheshwerreddy Chilamari
    Vishal Rai
    Organometallic Complexes: Catalysis and Application in Protein Modification Indian Journal of Chemistry-A 2013