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2026

Zerihun, Mulate ; Chakraborty, Sayan ; Abita, Ayetenew et al. / Mitigating Excessive Mitochondrial Fission Through the Development of a Selective Macrocyclic Inhibitor Targeting Fis1/Mid51 Signaling. In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 2026 ; Vol. 69, No. 11. pp. 13380-13403.

2025

Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2025. 140 p.
Zoabi, Faten Habrat ; Zerihun, Mulate ; Lizarovich, Roy et al. / Inhibiting MARCH5/Mfn2 signaling as an alternative strategy to protect cardiomyocytes from hypoxia-induced mitochondrial dysfunction. In: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 2025 ; Vol. 27. pp. 3045-3065.
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Starting a Laboratory or Research Group. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 93-102
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / Postbaccalaureate Programs. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 44-45
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / Navigating Decisions, Milestones, and Crossroads in Science. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 109-119
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Designing a Research Project. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 67-70
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Epilogue. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 135-136
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / Excelling in Your PhD. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 50-58
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Scientific Career Trajectories. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 129-134
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Scientific Impacts. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 9-13
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / The Scientist’s Skillset. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 18-21
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / A Day in the Life of a Scientist. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 14-17
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Excelling in Your Postdoc. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 88-92
Qvit, Nir. / MARCH5/Mfn2 Peptide Inhibitors: A Mitochondrial Therapeutic for CVDs. Abstract from 29th American Peptide Symposium.
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / The Master’s Degree. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 46-49
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Obtaining Research Funding. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 71-76
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Publishing and Presenting Scientific Findings. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 77-83
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / Excelling in Your Undergraduate Degree. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 39-43
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / Science in a Pandemic. The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Scientific Research. CRC Press, 2025. pp. 84-87

2024

Ferreira, Julio C.B. ; Campos, Juliane C. ; Qvit, Nir et al. / Correction to : A selective inhibitor of mitofusin 1-βIIPKC association improves heart failure outcome in rats (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (329), 10.1038/s41467-018-08276-6). In: Nature Communications. 2024 ; Vol. 15, No. 1.
ויינר-שלמה, רן ; ארטרכט, אופיר ; גולן, רון et al. / הערכה של השפעת התזמון להתחלת שיקום לאחר אוטם שריר הלב, ובחינת טיפול תרופתי מבוסס פפטיד לאיזון הדינמיקה המיטוכונדרית : [מתוך המדור: מאמרים]. In: הרפואה. 2024 ; Vol. 163, No. 2. pp. 88-92.
Azulay, Hay ; Benyunes, Inbar ; Elber, Gershon et al. / Studying Biomolecular Protein Complexes via Origami and 3D-Printed Models. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. 2024 ; Vol. 25, No. 15.
Berhe, Hayelom ; Kumar Cinthakunta Sridhar, Mahesh ; Zerihun, Mulate et al. / The Potential Use of Peptides in the Fight against Chagas Disease and Leishmaniasis. In: Pharmaceutics. 2024 ; Vol. 16, No. 2.
Qvit, Nir. / Pharmacological approach for targeting mitochondrial dysfunction: rational design of a potent protein-protein interaction antagonist. Abstract from 37th European Peptide Symposium (EPS) and 14th International.

2023

Silnitsky, Shmuel ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Zerihun, Mulate et al. / An Update on Protein Kinases as Therapeutic Targets—Part I : Protein Kinase C Activation and Its Role in Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. 2023 ; Vol. 24, No. 24.
Sukumaran, Surya ; Tan, Mingdian ; Ben-Uliel, Shulamit Fluss et al. / Rational design, synthesis and structural characterization of peptides and peptidomimetics to target Hsp90/Cdc37 interaction for treating hepatocellular carcinoma. In: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 2023 ; Vol. 21. pp. 3159-3172.
Elias, Maria ; Gani, Samar ; Lerner, Yana et al. / Developing a peptide to disrupt cohesin head domain interactions. In: iScience. 2023 ; Vol. 26, No. 9.
Zerihun, Mulate ; Qvit, Nir. / Selective inhibitors targeting Fis1/Mid51 protein-protein interactions protect against hypoxia-induced damage in cardiomyocytes. In: Frontiers in Pharmacology. 2023 ; Vol. 14.
Zerihun, Mulate ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Silnitsky, Shmuel et al. / An Update on Protein Kinases as Therapeutic Targets—Part II : Peptides as Allosteric Protein Kinase C Modulators Targeting Protein–Protein Interactions. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. 2023 ; Vol. 24, No. 24.

2022

Ben-Uliel, Shulamit Fluss ; Zoabi, Faten Habrat ; Slavin, Moriya et al. / De Novo Development of Mitochondria-Targeted Molecular Probes Targeting Pink1. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. 2022 ; Vol. 23, No. 11.
Hanout, Wessal ; Qvit, Nir. / Antiparasitic therapeutic peptidomimetics. Peptide and Peptidomimetic Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside. Elsevier, 2022. pp. 371-415
Qvit, Nir. / Therapeutic peptides targeting protein kinase : progress, challenges, and future directions, featuring cancer and cardiovascular disease. Peptide and Peptidomimetic Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside. Elsevier, 2022. pp. 333-356
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / The current state of backbone cyclic peptidomimetics and their application to drug discovery . Peptide and Peptidomimetic Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside. Elsevier, 2022. pp. 157-193
Litmanovich, Adi ; Ertracht, Offir ; Blumberg, Yair et al. / Noncardiovascular-derived therapeutic peptidomimetics in cardiovascular disease. Peptide and Peptidomimetic Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside. Elsevier, 2022. pp. 615-654
Litmanovich, Adi ; Moady, Gassan ; Saad, Mussa et al. / Cardiovascular-derived therapeutic peptidomimetics in cardiovascular disease. Peptide and Peptidomimetic Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside. Elsevier, 2022. pp. 579-614
Azulay, Hay ; Lutaty, Aviv ; Qvit, Nir. / How Similar Are Proteins and Origami?. In: Biomolecules. 2022 ; Vol. 12, No. 5.
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Peptide and Peptidomimetic Therapeutics : From Bench to Bedside. Elsevier, 2022. 754 p.
Qvit, Nir. / Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit: Rationally Designed Peptide as Regulators of Protein-Protein Interactions and Their Applications to Human Disease. Abstract from 36th European Peptide Symposium and 12th International Peptide Symposium, Barcelona, Spain.289 p.
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / Preface. Peptide and Peptidomimetic Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside. Elsevier, 2022. pp. xxix-xxxvi
Lerner, Yana ; Sukumaran, Surya ; Chua, Mei Sze et al. / Exploring Biomolecular Interaction Between the Molecular Chaperone Hsp90 and Its Client Protein Kinase Cdc37 using Field-Effect Biosensing Technology. In: Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2022 ; Vol. 2022, No. 181.

2021

Qvit, Nir. / Peptides and Peptidomimetics as Foundations for Drug Discovery. Encyclopedia of Molecular Pharmacology. editor / Stefan Offermanns ; Walter Rosenthal. Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2021. pp. 1219-1226

2020

Azulay, Hay ; (Pellach) Leshem, Michal ; Qvit, Nir. / An Approach to comparing protein structures and origami models - Part 2. Multi-domain proteins. In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes. 2020 ; Vol. 1862, No. 11.
Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Peptide therapeutics : Scientific approaches, current development trends, and future directions. In: Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 2020 ; Vol. 20, No. 32. pp. 2903.
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / Engineering “antimicrobial peptides” and other peptides to modulate protein-protein interactions in cancer. In: Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 2020 ; Vol. 20, No. 32. pp. 2970-2983.
Lerner, Yana ; Hanout, Wessal ; Ben-Uliel, Shulamit Fluss et al. / Natriuretic peptides as the basis of peptide drug discovery for cardiovascular diseases. In: Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 2020 ; Vol. 20, No. 32. pp. 2904-2921.
Azulay, Hay ; Lutaty, Aviv ; Qvit, Nir. / Approach for comparing protein structures and origami models. In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes. 2020 ; Vol. 1862, No. 2.

2019

Ferreira, Julio C.B. ; Campos, Juliane C. ; Qvit, Nir et al. / A selective inhibitor of mitofusin 1-βIIPKC association improves heart failure outcome in rats. In: Nature Communications. 2019 ; Vol. 10, No. 1.

2018

Kornfeld, Opher S. ; Qvit, Nir ; Haileselassie, Bereketeab et al. / Interaction of mitochondrial fission factor with dynamin related protein 1 governs physiological mitochondrial function in vivo. In: Scientific Reports. 2018 ; Vol. 8, No. 1.
Qvitnir, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. / Cyclic peptides for protein-protein interaction targets. In: Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 2018 ; Vol. 18, No. 7. pp. 525.
Qvit, N. / Engineered protein-protein interaction regulators for therapeutic applications. Abstract from European Peptide Symposium, Dublin, Ireland.
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Tal-Gan, Yftah ; Gilon, Chaim et al. / Conversion of protein active regions into peptidomimetic therapeutic leads using backbone cyclization and cycloscan – how to do it yourself. In: Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 2018 ; Vol. 18, No. 7. pp. 556-565.
Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Qvit, Nir. / Backbone-cyclized peptides : A critical review. In: Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 2018 ; Vol. 18, No. 7. pp. 526-555.

2017

Qvit, Nir ; Rubin, Samuel J.S. ; Urban, Travis J. et al. / Peptidomimetic therapeutics : scientific approaches and opportunities. In: Drug Discovery Today. 2017 ; Vol. 22, No. 2. pp. 454-462.
Cunningham, Anna D. ; Qvit, Nir ; Mochly-Rosen, Daria. / Peptides and peptidomimetics as regulators of protein–protein interactions. In: Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 2017 ; Vol. 44. pp. 59-66.
Qvit, Nir ; Kornfeld, Opher S. ; Mochly-Rosen, Daria. / Corrigendum to : Engineered Substrate-Specific Delta PKC Antagonists to Enhance Cardiac Therapeutics (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, (2016), 55, 50, (15672-15679), 10.1002/anie.201605429). In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2017 ; Vol. 56, No. 9. pp. 2236.
Qvit, Nir. / Rational design of a novel peptide that selectively inhibits δPKC-mediated pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase phosphorylation induce protection from ischemia and reperfusion injury. Abstract from American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, California, United States.

2016

Hurt, Carl M. ; Lu, Yao ; M. Stary, Creed et al. / Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 Regulates Mitochondrial Membrane Potential and Myocardial Reperfusion Injury. In: Journal of the American Heart Association. 2016 ; Vol. 5, No. 9.
Qvit, Nir ; Disatnik, Marie Hélène ; Sho, Eiketsu et al. / Selective Phosphorylation Inhibitor of Delta Protein Kinase C-Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase Protein-Protein Interactions : Application for Myocardial Injury in Vivo. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2016 ; Vol. 138, No. 24. pp. 7626-7635.
Qvit, Nir ; Kornfeld, Opher S. / Development of a backbone cyclic peptide library as potential antiparasitic therapeutics using microwave irradiation. In: Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2016 ; Vol. 2016, No. 107.
Qvit, Nir ; Schechtman, Deborah ; Pena, Darlene Aparecida et al. / Scaffold proteins LACK and TRACK as potential drug targets in kinetoplastid parasites : Development of inhibitors. In: International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance. 2016 ; Vol. 6, No. 1. pp. 74-84.
Qvit, Nir. / Specific kinase inhibition using peptides to target kinase-substrate docking. In: Chimica Oggi/Chemistry Today. 2016 ; Vol. 34, No. 5. pp. 22-25.
Qvit, Nir ; Joshi, Amit U. ; Cunningham, Anna D. et al. / Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (GAPDH) protein-protein interaction inhibitor reveals a non-catalytic role for GAPDH oligomerization in cell death. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2016 ; Vol. 291, No. 26. pp. 13608-13621.
Franco, Antonietta ; Kitsis, Richard N. ; Fleischer, Julie A. et al. / Correcting mitochondrial fusion by manipulating mitofusin conformations. In: Nature. 2016 ; Vol. 540, No. 7631. pp. 74-79.
Rubin, Samuel ; Qvit, Nir. / Cyclic peptides for protein–protein interaction targets : Applications to human disease. In: Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression. 2016 ; Vol. 26, No. 3. pp. 199-221.

2015

Qvit, Nir. / Microwave-assisted synthesis of cyclic phosphopeptide on solid support. In: Chemical Biology and Drug Design. 2015 ; Vol. 85, No. 3. pp. 300-305.
Kornfeld, Opher S. ; Hwang, Sunhee ; Disatnik, Marie Hélène et al. / Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species at The heart of The matter : New therapeutic approaches for cardiovascular diseases. In: Circulation Research. 2015 ; Vol. 116, No. 11. pp. 1783-1799.

2014

Qvit, Nir ; Crapster, J. Aaron. / Peptides that target protein-protein interactions as an anti-parasite strategy. In: Chimica Oggi/Chemistry Today. 2014 ; Vol. 32, No. 6. pp. 31-36.
Qvit, N. / Laboratory for undergraduate students: Preparation of aspartame analogs using simultaneous multiple parallel synthesis methodology. American Chemical Society National Meeting. American Chemical Society, 2014.
Qvit, N. ; Disatnik, MH. ; No matches for: Mochly-Rosen, D. / Engineering a delta protein kinase C inhibitor that selectively inhibits interaction and phosphorylation of one substrate of the multi-substrate kinase. Annual American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Vol. 28 The FASEB Journal, 2014. pp. 1

2013

Qi, Xin ; Qvit, Nir ; Su, Yu Chin et al. / A novel Drp1 inhibitor diminishes aberrant mitochondrial fission and neurotoxicity. In: Journal of Cell Science. 2013 ; Vol. 126, No. 3. pp. 789-802.

2012

Qvit, N. / Targeting Neglected Diseases Based on Rational Approach Design; Proof of Concept: Novel Peptides for Inhibiting Leishmaniasis. Abstract from 61st Annual Meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Targeting Neglected Diseases Based on Rational Approach Design; Proof of Concept: Novel Peptides for Inhibiting Leishmaniasis, United States.
Mochly-Rosen, D. (Inventor) ; Qi, X. (Inventor) ; Nir, O. (Inventor). / Inhibition of aberrant mitochondrial fission by novel mitochondrial fission peptide inhibitors. Stanford University. Patent No.: PCT/US2012/037800.
Qvit, N. ; Disatnik, MH. ; Mochly-Rosen, D. / Selective inhibition of δPKC-mediated pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase phosphorylation alone is sufficient to induce protection from ischemia and reperfusion injury. American Heart Association Annual Meeting. Vol. 126(Suppl 21) Circulation, 2012. pp. A12257
Mochly-Rosen, D. (Inventor) ; Disatnik, MH. (Inventor) ; Qvit, N. (Inventor). / Compositions and methods for specific regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase. Stanford University. Patent No.: PCT/US2012/050389.
Qvit, N. / Novel Selective Peptide Regulator of Protein Kinase C Based on Rational Approach Design. Abstract from International Conference and Exhibition on Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Las Vegas, Israel.

2011

Qvit, N. ; Disatnik, MH. ; Mochly-Rosen, D. / Rational design of a novel peptide that selectively inhibits one delta PKC function. American Peptide Symposium. Vol. 96(4) Biopolymers, 2011. pp. 487
Qvit, Nir. / Development and therapeutic applications of oligonucleotides and peptides. In: Chimica Oggi/Chemistry Today. 2011 ; Vol. 29, No. 2, S. pp. 4-7.

2010

Mochly-Rosen, Daria ; Qvit, Nir. / Peptide inhibitors of protein-protein interactions : From rational design to the clinic. In: Chimica Oggi. 2010 ; Vol. 28, No. 1 SUPPL. pp. 14-16.
Qvit, Nir ; Mochly-Rosen, Daria. / Highly specific modulators of protein kinase C localization : Applications to heart failure. In: Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms. 2010 ; Vol. 7, No. 2. pp. e87-e93.

2009

Qvit, N. ; Disatnik, MH. ; Mochly-Rosen, D. / Peptide regulators of protein-protein interactions with selectivity for specific sub-cellular compartments. American Peptide Symposium. Vol. 92 Biopolymers, 2009. pp. 322
Qvit, Nir ; Hatzubai, Ada ; Shalev, Deborah E. et al. / Design and synthesis of backbone cyclic phosphorylated peptides: The IκB model : The IκB model. In: Biopolymers. 2009 ; Vol. 91, No. 2. pp. 157 – 168.
Churchill, Eric N. ; Qvit, Nir ; Mochly-Rosen, Daria. / Rationally designed peptide regulators of protein kinase C. In: Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2009 ; Vol. 20, No. 1. pp. 25-33.
Qvit, Nir ; Hatzubai, Ada ; Shalev, Deborah E. et al. / Design and synthesis of backbone cyclic phosphopeptides : The iκb model. Peptides for Youth. editor / S. Valle. 2009. pp. 139-140 (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology).

2008

Qvit, Nir ; Monderer-Rothkoff, Galya ; Ido, Ayelet et al. / Development of bifunctional photoactivatable benzophenone probes and their application to glycoside substrates. In: Biopolymers. 2008 ; Vol. 90, No. 4. pp. 526-536.
Qvit, Nir ; Reuveni, Hadas ; Gazal, Sharon et al. / Synthesis of a novel macrocyclic library : Discovery of an IGF-1R inhibitor. In: Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry. 2008 ; Vol. 10, No. 2. pp. 256-266.

2007

Qvit, N. ; Hatzubai, A ; Shalev, ED et al. / Inhibiting NF-kappa B by mimicking the I kappa B conserved sequence using backbone cyclic peptide. American-Peptide Symposium. Vol. 88 Biopolymers, 2007. pp. 139-140
Qvit, Nir ; Barda, Yaniv ; Gilon, Chaim et al. / A laboratory preparation of aspartame analogs using simultaneous multiple parallel synthesis methodology. In: Journal of Chemical Education. 2007 ; Vol. 84, No. 12. pp. 1988-1991.

2006

Qvit, N. ; Gilon, C ; Amster-Choder, O et al. / Using novel benzophenons to study microbial sugar recognition and translocation by photo-affinity labeling/Photolabeling. European Peptide Symposium. Vol. 12 (S1) Journal of Peptide Science, 2006. pp. 91

2004

Qvit, N. ; Reuveni, H ; Gazal, S et al. / Novel macrocyclic libraries with spatial diversity (SIBs): Application for the discovery of insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R) inhibitor. European Peptide Symposium. Vol. 10 (S2) Journal of Peptide Science, 2004. pp. 93