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Department of Medicinal Chemistry · Deccan Institute of Scienceraolab@example.edu

Research Scientist · 2018–

Dr. Daniel Okafor

Senior Research Scientist

Research interests: Screening and structural biology

Daniel runs our screening robots and crystallography.

Publications

A new class of antibiotics that blocks bacterial lipoprotein transport

P. Natarajan, D. Okafor, L. Fischer, A. Rao

Nature, 2026Cover articleCited by 3

Crystal structures of a resistance enzyme bound to 40 inhibitors

D. Okafor, M. Chen, T. Herrera, A. Rao

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2025Cited by 41

Cryo-EM structure of a bacterial lipoprotein transporter

M. Chen, D. Okafor, A. Rao

Nature Communications, 2024Cited by 88

An open-source plate reader for microbiology

D. Okafor, V. Shah, A. Rao

SLAS Technology, 2023Cited by 140

Antibacterial compounds and methods of use

A. Rao, D. Okafor

Patent application, 2021Patent