Joydeep Lahiri

Corning (United States), Interface (United States)

Papers

Total Citations

169

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About

Joydeep Lahiri is a pioneering researcher in the field of biosensor technology and membrane protein microarrays, with a particular focus on developing innovative platforms for drug discovery. His most influential work centers on the fabrication and application of G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) microarrays — a technically formidable challenge given that these membrane-bound proteins must remain embedded in lipid bilayers to maintain their functional conformations. Lahiri's landmark papers from 2002 and 2003 on GPCR microarrays, which together have garnered over 145 citations, demonstrated that these critical drug targets could be successfully arrayed while preserving their biological integrity, opening new avenues for high-throughput pharmaceutical screening. His earlier work on lipid microarrays (2001) laid essential groundwork for this research trajectory, establishing foundational techniques for patterning membrane components at the microscale. Through his contributions to membrane biochip technology, Lahiri helped address one of the central challenges in drug discovery — namely, how to study the largest and most pharmaceutically relevant class of protein targets in a scalable, miniaturized format. His work remains highly relevant to researchers working at the intersection of nanotechnology, biochemistry, and pharmaceutical science.