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Roberto Adamo
Conjugates Technology Platform Leader
GSK Vaccines srl
Siena, Italy
Jon Agirre
Royal Society University Research Fellow
York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry
University of York,
York, UK
Massimo Aureli
Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine
University of Milano
Milano, Italy
Subhash Basu
Founding President, Cancer Drug Delivery Research Foundation,
University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame; IN, USA
Susan L. Bellis
Professor of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, USA
Nicolai V. Bovin
Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry,
Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia
Hannes Bülow
Department of Genetics and
Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
New York, NY, USA
Christopher Cairo
Alberta Glycomics Centre and Department of Chemistry,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada
Laura Cantù
Deparment of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine,
University of Milan,
Milan, Italy
Chuan-Fa Chang
Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology,
College of Medicine,
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, Taiwan
Fabrizio Chiodo
Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute,
Amsterdam University Medical Center,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Elena Chiricozzi
Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine,
University of Milan, Italy
Jin Won Cho
Department of Biomedical Science,
Yonsei University,
Seoul, Korea
Brian A. Cobb
Department of Pathology,
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine,
Cleveland, OH, USA
Catherine E. Costello
Department of Biochemistry, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston
University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA
Alan Cross
Institute for Global Health,
University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, USA
Jon Cuccui
Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
London, UK
Richard D. Cummings
Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA, USA
Giovanni D’Angelo
Institute of Bioengineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
Jose Luis Daniotti
Research Centre in Biologocal Chemisty of Cordoba (CIQUIBIC)
CONICET-UNC
Cordoba, Argentina
Alessandra D’Azzo
Department of Genetics,
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
Memphis, TN, USA
Elena Del Favero
Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine,
University of Milan,
Milan, Italy
Ratmir Derda
Department of Chemistry,
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
Malgorzata Dubiel
Ghent University, Belgium
Jose M. Estevez
Head of Laboratory -Molecular Basis
for Plant Development-Leloir Institute
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ten Feizi
The Glycosciences Laboratory, Imperial College London,
London, UK
Jukka Finne
Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme,
University of Helsinki,
Finland
François Foulquier
Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionelle (UGSF),
University of Lille,
Lille, France
Morihisa Fujita
Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology,
Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology,
Jiangnan University,
Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
Koichi Fukase
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science,
Osaka University, Japan
Domenico Garozzo
CNR Istituto per i Polimeri Compositi e Biomateriali IPCB
Catania, Italy
Mariagrazia Giansanti
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Biologia e Patologia molecolari
c/o Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie
Università Sapienza di Roma
Roma, Italy
Jeff Gildersleeve
Chemical Biology Laboratory,
National Cancer Institute,
Frederick, MD, USA
Paul A. Gleeson
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute,
The University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia
Marcelo E. Guerin
Ikerbasque Research Professor
Head of the Structural Glycobiology Group
Structural Biology Unit – CIC bioGUNE
Technological Park of Bizkaia
Derio, Vizcaya, Spain
Marco Guerrini
Istituto di Ricerche Chimiche e Biochimiche “G. Ronzoni”,
Milan, Italy
Shinya Hanashima
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science,
Osaka University
Osaka, Japan
Yoshio Hirabayashi
Visiting Scientist
Cellular Informatics Laboratory,
RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research
Jin-ichi Inokuchi
Division of Glycopathology,
Institute of Molecular Biomembrane and Glycobiology,
Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University,
Sendai, Japan
Kazuhisa Iwabuchi
Graduate School of Health Care and Nursing;
Institute for Environmental and Gender Specific Medicine,
Graduate school of Medicine, Juntendo University,
Chiba, Japan
Jaak Jaeken
Centre for Metabolic Disease,
University Hospital Gasthuisberg,
Leuven, Belgium
Ludger Johannes
Institut Curie, PSL Research University,
U1143 INSERM — UMR3666 CNRS
Paris, France
Nathalie Juge
Quadram Bioscience Institute
Norwich, UK
Anna Karlsson-Bengtsson
Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine
University of Gothenburg
Göteborg, Sweden
Kazuya Kabayama
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science,
Osaka University
Osaka, Japan
Soerge Kelm
Department of Biology and Chemistry
University of Bremen,
Bremen, Germany
Kay-hooi Khoo
Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
Claudine Kieda
Military Institute of Medicine, LOMTI
ul. Szaserow 128
04-141 Warsaw, Poland
Taroh Kinoshita
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University,
Osaka, Japan
Lena Kjellén
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology,
Uppsala University, The Biomedical Center;
Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University,
Uppsala, Sweden
Toshihide Kobayashi
Directeur de recherche INSERM
Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
Daniel Kolarich
Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University,
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Benoit Kornmann
Department of Biochemistry and ST-Hugh’s College,
University of Oxford, Oxford UK
Roger Laine
Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry,
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Gordan Lauc
Genos Glycoscience Research Laboratory
University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry
Zagreb, Croatia
Diana Laverde
Dr. V. Hauner Children’s Hospital,
LMU Munich,
University of Munich (LMU),
Munich, Germany
Robert Ledeen
Division of Neurochemistry, Department of Pharmacology,
Physiology & Neuroscience,
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School,
Newark, NJ, USA
Philippe-Claude Lefebvre
University of Lille, Inserm,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille,
Lille, France
Tony Lefebvre
Structural and Functional Glycobiology Unit,
CNRS, Lille 1 University,
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Dirk Lefeber
Expertise Center for Disorders of Glycosylation
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Hakon Leffler
co-founder Galecto-Biotech
Sect. MIG (Microbiology, Immunology, Glycobiology),
Dept Laboratory Medicine, Lund University,
Lund, Sweden
Marianna Leonzino
Department of Neuroscience,
Yale University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
New Haven, CT, USA
Ulf Lindahl
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology,
Uppsala University, The Biomedical Center,
Uppsala, Sweden
Jian Liu
Division of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry,
Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Yan Liu
Institute for Reproductive and Developmental Biology,
Imperial College London
London, UK
Hugues Lortat-Jacob
Institut de Biologie Structurale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
CEA, Université Grenoble-Alpes,
Grenoble, France
Alberto Luini
Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council,
Naples, Italy
Vladimir Lupashin
Department of Physiology and Biophysics,
College of Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,
Little Rock, AR, USA
John L. Magnani
Chief Science Officer and Senior V.P.
GlycoMimetics, Inc.
Rockville, MD, USA
Gert Matthijs
Center for Human Genetics,
KU Leuven,
Leuven, Belgium
Satyajit Mayor
National Centre for Biological Sciences,
Bangalore, India
Michael P. McDonald
Depts. of Neurology and Anatomy & Neurobiology
Director of Alzheimer Research
Memphis, TN, USA
Francesca Micoli
GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health (GVGH) S.r.l.
Siena, Italy
Taeko Miyagi
Miyagi Cancer Center Research Institute
Sendai, Japan
Eiji Miyoshi
Osaka University Medical School,
Osaka, Japan
Antonio Molinaro
Department of Chemical Sciences and
Task Force on Microbiome Studies,
University of Naples Federico II,
Naples, Italy
Vincent Monnier
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Manuel Muniz
Department of Cell Biology,
University of Seville,
Seville, Spain
Tatsuro Mutoh
Department of Neurology & Neuroscience,
Fujita Health University School of Medicine,
Toyoake, Japan
Laurence Mulard
Chemistry of Biomolecules Laboratory and
CNRS UMR3523,
Institut Pasteur,
Paris, France
Hitoshi Nakayama
Associate Professor
Juntendo University Faculty of Health Care and Nursing
Hisashi Narimatsu
RCMG Inc. and
AIST, Japan
Jérôme Nigou
Département “Tuberculose & Biologie des Infections”
Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale
UMR 5089 CNRS – Université de Toulouse
Toulouse, France
Shoko Nishihara
Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Bioinformatics,
Graduate School of Engineering, Soka University,
Hachioji, Japan
Barry R. O’Keefe
Acting Chief, Molecular Targets Program
Center for Cancer Research
Chief, Natural Products Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program
Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
National Cancer Institute
Frederick, MD, USA
Nicki Packer
Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University,
Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University
Australia
Raman Parashuraman
Institute of Protein
Biochemistry IBP-CNR, Naples, Italy
Katharina Paschinger
Department für Chemie, Universität für Bodenkultur,
Vienna, Austria
James C. Paulson
Department of Molecular Medicine,
The Scripps Research Institute,
La Jolla, CA, USA
Li Peng
SVP of Discovery and Early Product Development,
Palleon Pharmaceuticals,
Waltham, MA, USA
Claney L. Pereira
Managing Director and Director of Chemistry
Vaxxilon Deutschland GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Fabian Pfrengle
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces,
Potsdam, Germany
Alexey V. Pshezhetsky
Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center,
University of Montreal,
McGill University, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology,
Montreal, CANADA
Naila Rabbani
University of Warwick,
Coventry, U.K.
Celso Albuquerque Reis
Head of the Glycobiology in Cancer Group
IPATIMUP – Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto
Porto, Portugal
Shifang Ren
NHC Key Laboratory of Glycoconjugates Research,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
School of Basic Medical Sciences,
Fudan University,
Shanghai, China
Yuanyuan Ruan
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Fudan University,
Shanghai, China
Konrad Sandhoff
LIMES Institute, Membrane Biology & Lipid Biochemistry Unit,
Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie,
Universität Bonn,
Bonn, Germany
Chihiro Sato
Bioscience and Biotechnology Center,
Nagoya University,
Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan
Nichollas E. Scott
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Marcello Sega
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg
Nürnberg, Deutschland
Liana C. Silva
iMed.ULisboa – Research Institute for Medicines,
Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa,
Lisboa, Portugal
Atsushi Shimoyama
Department of Chemistry, School of Science,
Osaka University
Osaka, Japan
Thomas Simmen
Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada
Simonetta Sipione
Department of Pharmacology and
Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Sandro Sonnino
Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine
University of Milano,
Milano, Italy
Richard Strasser
BOKU
Vienna, Austria
Anita H. Straus
Departamento de Bioquimica, Escola Paulista de Medicina,
Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil
Avadhesha Surolia
Bhatnagar Fellow, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR),
Honorary Professor, Molecular Biophysics Unit
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India
Akemi Suzuki
Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University,
Sendai, Japan
Kenichi G.N. Suzuki
Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS),
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan;
Center for Highly Advanced Integration of Nano and Life Sciences (G-CHAIN),
Gifu University
Gifu, Japan
Tomohiko Taguchi
Laboratory of Organelle Pathophysiology,
Department of Integrative Life Sciences,
Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan
Naoyuki Taniguchi
Department of Glyco-Oncology and Medical Biochemistry,
Osaka International Cancer Institute,
Osaka, Japan
Paul J. Thornalley
Director, Diabetes Research Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI),
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation
Doha, Qatar
President, International Maillard Reaction Society (IMARS) & Chair,
European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)
Reactive Metabolites Study Group (RMSG)
Els van Damme
Department of Biotechnology, Ghent University,
Ghent, Belgium
Sandra J. van Vliet
Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology
Amsterdam UMC
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
David J. Vocadlo
Department of Chemistry
and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC, Canada
George Peng Wang
Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, GA, USA
Takashi Watanabe
Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Faculty of Agriculture,
Kyushu University, Japan
Shih-Hsiung Wu
Institute of Biological Chemistry,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Peng Wu
Department of Molecular Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA, USA
Manfred Wuhrer
Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics,
Leiden University Medical Center
Netherlands
Sho Yamasaki
Molecular Immunology,
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (RIMD)
Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC)
Osaka University
Suita, Japan
Natasha Zachara
Department of Biological Chemistry,
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, USA
Thomas Zemb
Institut de Chimie Separative de Marcoule (ISCM)
CEA Marcoule
Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France