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The Boston Echo Course: Interactive Hands-on, 3-D Workshop

Our Interactive Hands-On 3D Workshop is offered three times a year, with upcoming courses in March and August 2016. It is the only hands-on 3D imaging workshop in the country, with a chance to learn and practice 3D imaging with real equipment. See attached flyer for details

Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, Receives Kersley Medal

Reza Dana, MD, MSc, MPH, received the Kersley Medal from the British Ocular Surface Society, and delivered an associated lectureship entitled "Ocular surface inflammation - lab to bedside" at the Society's 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting in London on December 4, 2015.

Anders M. Näär, PhD, Receives RPB Award

Anders M. Näär, PhD, Harvard Medical School Professor of Cell Biology, received Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein Innovation Award in the amount of $300,000 over two years. This award is given to researchers outside of the Department of Ophthalmology (but within HMS) with a common goal of...

Grants Received September and October 2015

Petr Baranov, MD, received the Alice Adler Award of $30,000 over one year from Harvard Medical School for his project, "High-throughput screening assay to identify photoreceptor pre-survival molecules." Together with Patricia D'Amore, PhD, MBA, he also received $60,000 over one year from Mass. Lions...

August 2013

AUGUST 2013 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a new National Center for Functional Glycomics (NCFG) housed at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, directed by Richard D. Cummings, Ph.D., William Patterson Timmie Professor and Chair of the Department of...

Center Aims/Rationale

The “ National Center for Functional Glycomics” ( NCFG) as a Biomedical Technology Research Center (BTRC) is devoted to the technology of glycan recognition through microarray display and other modes of glycan presentation. This Center is the first of its kind with the central focus being...

Training

On-Site Training For work opportunities at the NCFG please visit our Opportunities page for the latest openings. If you are interested in learning about the technologies being developed in the NCFG, please contact us for more information about individual peer training at our center. The center will...

Edward Stronge - Program Coordinator

Edward Stronge is a 1st year MD/PhD candidate from Minneapolis, MN. He earned B.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of Minnesota, studying French Studies and Neuroscience. Outside of school, Edward enjoys taking in Boston's live music scene. He looks forward to planning events that promote...

Jibril Kedir - Pipeline Coordinator

Jibril is a first year MD-PhD student in HST. He was born in Ethiopia, but grew up in Baltimore County, Maryland. He graduated from Columbia University in 2015 with a degree in Biophysics. He hopes to one day become a physician-scientist to help bring medical innovations from the bench to the...