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Kirill A. Afonin

University of North Carolina at CharlotteORCID 0000-0002-6917-3183Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Biochemistry· 1 Bioinformatics· 1

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Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 1

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Alexander J. LushnikoviD· 1 shared Alexey V. KrasnoslobodtseviD· 1 shared Alexey V. ZakharoviD· 1 shared Alora R. DunnavantiD· 1 shared Camila Rizek· 1 shared Cheyenne Vasquez· 1 shared Elizabeth SkellyiD· 1 shared Enping Hong· 1 shared

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2022-2025 · peak 1/yr

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Spatially Organized DNA-templated Silver Nanoclusters as Potent Antimicrobial Agents for ESKAPE Infections

Elizabeth Skelly, Krishna J. Majithia, Laura P. Rebolledo, Camila Rizek, Sílvia Figueiredo Costa, Alora R. Dunnavant, Cheyenne Vasquez, Alexander J. Lushnikov, Alexey V. Krasnoslobodtsev, Taejin Kim, Renata de Freitas Saito, Roger J. Chammas, Morgan Brittany Johnson, Kirill A. Afonin

This study develops DNA-templated silver nanoclusters as antimicrobial agents effective against antibiotic-resistant pathogens and demonstrates their dual therapeutic and imaging capabilities.

bioRxiv · Oct 2, 2025 · PreprintBiochemistry

Artificial immune cell, AI-cell, a new tool to predict interferon production by peripheral blood monocytes in response to nucleic acid nanoparticles

Morgan R. Chandler, Sankalp Jain, Justin R. Halman, Enping Hong, Marina A. Dobrovolskaia, Alexey V. Zakharov, Kirill A. Afonin

The paper develops an AI-cell model using a transformer architecture to predict interferon production by monocytes in response to nucleic acid nanoparticles.

Small · Oct 10, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics