Faculty | Sikkim Manipal University

Madurai Kamaraj University,Summer Research Fellow, Research Fellow in Structural Bioinformatics, 2016-2017
Vellore Institute of Technology, Teaching cum Research Associate,Teaching and Research in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2019-2021
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Sikkim Manipal University,Assistant Professor, Teaching and Research (Medical Biotechnology and Bioinformatics), 2022-Present

Class Coordinator, M.Sc Final Year, Department of Medical Biotechnology.
Coordinator, Department Syllabus Committee of B.Sc and M.Sc courses.
Monitoring the research as well as other extracurricular activities of the department.

Das R, Bhattarai A, Tamang B, Thakur N. Identification of potential VP40 inhibitor of Marburg virus through molecular docking, pharmacokinetic analysis and molecular dynamics simulation. Scientific Reports. 2025 Jul 25;15(1):27129.
Das R, Bhattarai A, Karn R, Tamang B. Computational investigations of potential inhibitors of monkeypox virus envelope protein E8 through molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations. Scientific Reports. 2024 Aug 23; 14(1):19585
Bhattarai A, Priyadharshini A, Emerson IA. Investigating the binding affinity of andrographolide against human SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain through docking and molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 2023 Dec 29;41(22):13438-53
Bhattarai, A. and Emerson, IA. Exploring the conformational dynamics and flexibility of intrinsically disordered HIV-1 Nef protein using molecular dynamic network approaches. 3 Biotech. 2021 March 4.
Bhattarai A, Emerson IA. Dynamic conformational flexibility and molecular interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins. Journal of biosciences. 2020 Dec;45(1):29.

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