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Yumin Dai

Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1991Rising activity

Publications

72

Citations

2,435

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

36

Publishing since 1991

Research summary
AI-generated

This researcher's work spans medicinal chemistry and cancer biology, including the design of small-molecule drugs such as mitochondrial uncouplers for liver and metabolic disease, kinase inhibitors for hematologic cancers, and enzyme mechanism studies. Publications also touch on biomaterials (chitosan scaffolds for bone repair) and pharmaceutical analysis of drug degradation products, suggesting involvement in applied drug discovery and development pipelines, likely within an industry or translational research setting.

Drug discovery and medicinal chemistryCancer signaling and kinase inhibitorsMitochondrial and metabolic disease therapeuticsEnzyme mechanisms and biochemistryBiomaterials for tissue engineering

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a notable spike in 2023 (largely supplementary/data records) following a lull around 2020-2022, and a modest, uneven pace in more recent years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.0/year recently
2017: 7 publications172018: 7 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 4 publications20212022: 2 publications222023: 16 publications16232024: 2 publications242025: 4 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry×3
  • ChemBioChem×3
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition×2
  • PLoS ONE×2
  • Biochemistry×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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