NCFG Hands-on Training Sessions March 2019
The NCFG is hosting a Hands-On Training Session for Glycomics in March. For full details visit: https://ncfg.hms.harvard.edu/hands-training-sessions
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2020 Society for Glycobiology Annual Meeting
2020 Virtual Society for Glycobiology Annual Meeting will be held November 9-12. Details can be found at : Society for Glycobiology Website Conference Deadlines September 15, 2020 Regular abstract submission closes September 25, 2020 Abstract acceptance letters & poster notifications sent September...
Center Move to Harvard Medical School
Our center has moved to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Deadline for Sialoglyco 2018 extended!
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...
Recent Preprint work - "SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Interacts with Multiple Innate Immune Receptors"
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...
Recent discovery "Cosmc Controls B Cell Homing" by Zeng et al.
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...
NHLBI funding leads to promising drug candidate to prevent sickle cell pain
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.
Identification and Characterization of Circulating Immune Complexes in IgA Nephropathy
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...
Research
The “ National Center for Functional Glycomics” ( NCFG) as a National Resource Center 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 exploration of the functional...
Technology Research and Development (TR&Ds)
The NCFG operates under 3 TR&D projects: Project 1 – Expansion of Glycan Microarray Technology Project 2 – Shotgun Glycomics and Functional Recognition Project 3 – Glycan Display and Recognition TR&D project goals will focus on 5 main areas and the projects integrates and synergizes with each other...