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An exciting new discovery from researchers at Harvard Medical School has provided new insight into the possible cause of some autoimmune disorders. Autoimmune diseases are among the most common afflictions of humans, yet their root causes are not known. Most arise spontaneously or sporadically in...

Our center has moved to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Dear Glycoscientists: The deadline for submission of poster abstracts to the 2018 conference on Sialic Acids has been extended to Friday March 30th. This biennial conference is being held May 10-14 in Banff, Canada. For details on the Sialoglyco2018 conference, see https://sialoglyco.com/abstract...

How many ways can the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the cause of our current COVID-19 pandemic, interact with our cells and tissues? At the NCFG in the Department of Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, we have recently discovered that the spike glycoprotein...

Everyone has heard of lymph nodes, the place where our white blood cells (lymphocytes) move into, out of, and around our bodies; and we all know that lymphocytes are important cells for immune health and for fighting disease. But what do the lymphocytes need in order to do the moving around? A...

SBIR funding by the NHLBI to Selexys results in the development of crizanlizumab. Selexys was founded in 2002 by Rodger (Rod) McEver, M.D., Richard Cummings, Ph.D., and Rick Alvarez, M.B.A. Read more here.

Co-First Authors: Yasuyuki Matsumoto and Rajindra P Aryal Senior/Corresponding Author: Richard D Cummings, Professor, Dept. of Surgery, BIDMC/Harvard Medical School Published in Science Advances, October 28, 2022 A breakthrough in our understanding the human disease called IgA Nephropathy, has just...

This year's annual meeting will be held November 9-12, 2025 in San Diego! The meeting will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, and this year's theme is "World Glyco Expo"! For more detailed information please visit: https://www.glycobiology.org/2025-annual-meeting

A recent article in knowable magazine, published by Annual Reviews, highlights important facts about glycans, written for scientists and non-scientists. Dr. Richard Cummings is quoted, along with other leaders in the field of Glycoscience. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world...

The New England Glyco-Chemistry Meeting is a non-profit, educational organization with the mission to bring together like-minded carbohydrate chemists and biologists to the Boston area to discuss their latest research results. Boston and the greater New England area is a hub for biomedical related...