Prajesh Shrestha
PS

Prajesh Shrestha

PhD Candidate in Pathobiological Sciences

Louisiana State University
Specializing in computational and experimental peptide design for next-generation therapeutics

Research and Technical Expertise

Computational & Experimental Peptide Design
Molecular Modeling & Docking
Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Biophysical Validation
Protein-Protein Interactions
Solid-Phase Synthesis
Fmoc-SPPS
Peptide Cyclization and Disulfide linkage
Molecular Dynamics
MD Simulations
Docking
Free Energy Calculations
Binding Affinity Prediction
Analytical Techniques
HPLC
SPR (Biacore)
CD Spectroscopy
Mass Spec (MALDI)
Computational Methods
MOE
NAMD
Autodock
PyMOL
VMD
Bioinformatics
RNA-seq Analysis
DESeq2
GSEA
AlphaFold

Recent Publications

First Author
Published
An Orally Available Grafted Peptide Targeting EGFR Dimers reduces Lung Cancer
ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science • 2025
View DOI

Developed orally bioavailable grafted peptides that specifically target EGFR receptor dimers, demonstrating significant tumor reduction in mouse models.

Collaboration & Contact

pshres9@lsu.edu

Baton Rouge, LA

Research Interests
Oncology
Structure-Based Design
Molecular Dynamics

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PhD Candidate • LSU