Suresh Thallapuranam Data-verified

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University of Arkansas

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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4 h-index 24 pubs 54 cited

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Suresh Thallapuranam is a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His research focuses on protein structure and function, with applications in therapeutics and food science. He has received significant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work.

Dr. Thallapuranam has served as PI on multiple federal grants totaling over $2 million. These include funding from the NIH/NIAID for studying ACE2 SARS-CoV2-mediated valve disease using a microphysiological tissue-chip model, and from the NIH/NIGMS for developing hyperstable FGF1-FGF2 based therapeutic formulations for wound care. Additional NSF funding supports research on engineered FGF1 and FGF2 compositions, translation potential of cardiomyocyte-on-a-chip models, skin autofluorescence imagers for wound healing assessment, and template-directed synthesis of metal oxide and chalcogenide nanoshells.

His scholarly work includes publications on topics such as the protein components in rattlesnake venom, polyphenol-protein interactions affecting rheological properties of rice, and the roles and therapeutic applications of fibroblast growth factors. He has also investigated polyphenol-induced protein structural modifications in sorghum and the structural forces stabilizing FGF1-FGF2 dimers. Dr. Thallapuranam collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Zeina Alraawi and Patience Okoto, with whom he shares multiple publications.

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h-index: 4
Publications: 24
Citations: 54

Selected Publications

Abstract 1990 Creating a Heparin-Binding, Hyper-Stable FGF1: Effects of a Targeted Two Mutation on the N-Terminus of Super FGF1 (2025)

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Fibroblast Growth Factors: Roles and Emerging Therapeutic Applications (2025)

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Polyphenol-induced protein structural modifications in sorghum on pasting properties (2024)

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Polyphenol-Induced Protein Structural Modifications in Sorghum on Pasting Properties (2024)

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Abstract 1854 Recombinant FGF19 Purification and Characterization of Its Metabolic Activity (2024)

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Abstract 1748 Purification of Rubredoxin tagged Recombinant Proteins using the Three Phase Partitioning technique (2024)

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Elucidating the effect of polyphenol-protein interactions on rheological properties of purple waxy rice (2024)

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Molecular Modelling, Synthesis, and In-Vitro Assay to Identify Potential Antiviral Peptides Targeting the 3-Chymotrypsin-Like Protease of SARS-CoV-2 (2023)

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Transient local secondary structure in the intrinsically disordered C‐term of the Albino3 insertase (2022)

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A Meta-Analysis of the Protein Components in Rattlesnake Venom (2021)

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