CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY
This list is split into several sections, those workers whose main
research interest, or one of whose main interests is in Carbohydrate
Chemistry, those who have published in the area (minor
interests), industrial interests and some relevant links about Carbohydrates
The main list is subdivided by country:
[UNITED KINGDOM]
[EUROPE]-
[Austria]
[Belgium]
[Croatia]
[Czech Republic]
[Denmark]
[Estonia]
[Finland]
[France]
[Germany]
[Hungary]
[Ireland]
[Israel]
[Italy]
[Netherlands]
[Russia]
[Slovak Republic]
[Spain]
[Sweden]
[Switzerland]
[NORTHERN AMERICA]-
[USA]
[Canada]
[REST OF THE WORLD]-
[Japan]
[New Zealand]
[Australia]
[Asia]
[South America]
[Africa]
(See also my Chemistry page for other Carbohydrate
and general chemistry
links, and for links to all academic sites in the UK and the rest of the world.
- Firstly, groups in the UNITED KINGDOM
- LONDON
- Roy and Jill Gigg, Division of Lipid and General Chemistry,
National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London.
- Peter
Collins and H.A.J.
Carless, Department of Chemistry, Birkbeck College, University of
London.
- Anne Dell,
Department of Biochemistry, Imperial
College, University of London.
- Ten Feizi at the Glycosciences Laboratory, Imperial
College School of Medicine at St. Mary's, Harrow.
- Elizabeth Hounsell at the Glycoprotein
Unit, University College, London.
- Karl
Hale and David Craig (visiting professor)
at University College, London.
- C. Jones in Potters Bar.
- SOUTHERN ENGLAND
- Barry V.L. Potter
and J.
Grant Buchanan, Department of
Chemistry, University of Bath.
- Tim
Gallagher, Department of
Organic Chemistry, University of
Bristol.
- Steve
Ley, Chemistry Laboratory, Cambridge University.
- Sara
Pythian (also researching into combinatorial chemistry) at the
University of Exeter.
- J.M. Webber, editor of Carbohydrate Research, at Exeter.
- B.J. Hardy, K. Drickamer and
George W.J. Fleet at
the
Dysons-Perrins Laboratory (Organic Chemistry), University of Oxford,
also Raymond A. Dwek at the affiliated Glycobiology Institute.
- John
Mann, Department of Chemistry,
University of Reading.
- MIDLANDS
- NORTHERN ENGLAND
- SCOTLAND
- WALES
- Other establishments in EUROPE
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- Lectin
research, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Brussels
Free University.
- CROATIA
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- Klaus Bock (carlbk@unidhp.uni-c.dk) and Jens O. Duus in the
Carbohydrate Structure Group, Carlsberg Research
Centre, Department of Chemistry, Carlsberg
Forskningscenter, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500, Valby,
Copenhagen.
- Morten Meldal, working on Glycopeptides, at
- B.L. Moller, at the Royal
Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen.
- Mikael Bols at the Technical University of
Denmark, Lyngby.
- ESTONIA
- Alvo Aabloo (alvo@physic.ut.ee)at the Institute of Experimental Physics
and Technology, University of Tartu, Tartu.
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- S. Cottaz (cottaz@cermav.grenet.fr) at the University of Grenoble;
also J. Defaye at the Laboratoire de Chimie des Glucides, Grenoble.
- Alain Veyrieres at the Ecole Nationale Superieur de Chimie de Rennes.
- Pierre Sinay at the Ecole Normale Superieur, Departmente de
Chemie,associe de CNRS, Paris Cedex 05, also the editor of Carbohydrate Letters.
- S. Perez at Ingeniere Moleculaire, Institut Nationale de la Recherche
Agronomique, Nantes.
- J. Jacquinet at the Institute
for Chemistry, University of Orleans.
- Jean-Pierre Praly and Gerard Descotes at the Universite Claud-Bernard
Lyon I, Villeurbanne.
- Jacques Gelas at Ecole Nationale Superieure Chemie de
Clermont-Ferrand, Aubiere Cedex.
- Jeannine Cleophax at Institute de Chimie des substances naturelles,
CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, and Patrick Berthault at CEA-CE Saclay, Gif sur Yvette.
- D. Beaupere at Amiens.
- L. Szabo at CNRS, Universite de Paris-sud, Chatenay-Malabry.
- GERMANY
- HUNGARY
- IRELAND
- ISRAEL
- ITALY
- Riaz Khan at Technological Biopolymers Laboratory, Trieste (see here?).
- Alessandro Dondoni and Stefano Manfredini at
the University of Ferrara, Ferrara.
- Georgio Catelani at the University of Pisa, Pisa.
- Giovanni Casiraghi and Domenico Acquetti (domenico@ipruniv.cce.unipr.it),
at Universita degli Studi di Parma, Parma.
- B. Casu at the "G. Ronzoni" Istituto di Chimica e Biochimica, Milan.
- NETHERLANDS
- NORWAY
- O. Smidsrod at the University of Trondheim.
- POLAND
- Aleksander Zamojski at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.
- RUSSIA
- SLOVAK REPUBLIC
- Ladislav
Petrus at the
Institute of
Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, and currently
on secondment at the Whistler Centre (see USA). Also Jan Gajdos
(chemjgsa@savba.savba.sk) at this Institute.
- I. Tvaroska in Bratislava.
- Ivan Simkovic (chemsimk@savba.savbs.sk), at the Institute of
Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta, 84238 Bratislava,
(polysaccharide chemistry).
- SPAIN
- Manuel Bernabe, Serafin Valverde, Jesus Jimenez-Barbero (e-mail:
IQOJJ01@pinar1.csic.es), Alfonso Fernandez-Mayoralas,
and M. Martin-Lomas at the Instituto de Quimica Organica, CSIC, Madrid.
- Francisco Cabrera-Escribano and Jose M. Garcia Fernandez at
the Dept. de Quimica Organica, University of
Seville, Seville (no departmental web pages yet!).
- SWEDEN
- SWITZERLAND
- Establishments in the USA and CANADA:
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
By State:
- ALABAMA
- CALIFORNIA
- Chi-Huey
Wong (and this
link) at the Scripps
Institute, La Jolla, California.
- K.C.
Nicolaou, at the University of California, San Diego, and his group at the Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California (twice).
- Professor D.A.
Brant at the University
of California, Irvine.
- Barry M.
Trost, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
- GEORGIA
- HAWAII
- Professor Leonore A. Findsen (leonore@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu),
Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii.
- INDIANA
- IOWA
- LOUISIANA
- A. French, member of the editorial board of Carbohydrate Research, in
New Orleans, LA.
- Michael K. Dowd at the Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA.
- MARYLAND
- C.
Allen Bush, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Maryland at
Baltimore, a site on NMR and conformational studies of carbohydrates.
- Qiuwei Xu Research
Associate at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.
- P. Kovac at NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
- Vince Pozsgay (vipo@helix.nih.gov) at the National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD.
- MASSACHUSSETS
- M. Yalpani, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- MICHIGAN
- Professor Kevin Rice at the College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan.
- MINNEAPOLIS
- Gary R. Gray and
H.-W. Liu, members of
the editorial board of
Carbohydrate Research, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
- MISSOURI
- NEW JERSEY
- NEW YORK
- Samuel
J. Danishefsky at Columbia University in the City of New York.
- David
R. Mootoo, and his research at Hunter
College, City University of New York.
- Richard W.
Franck, also at Hunter College, City University of New
York.
- Vernon G.S.
Box, at City College, City University of New York (this link wasn't
working when I last tried it!).
- Rita
DeGasperi at New York University.
- Conrad Schuerch, at Department of Chemstry, State University of New
York, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, Syracuse, New York.
- NORTH CAROLINA
- OHIO
- OKLAHOMA
- PENNSYLVANIA
- K.B. Hicks, member of the editorial board of Carbohydrate Research, in
Philadelphia.
- G.A. Jeffrey at Pittsburgh, PA.
- SOUTH CAROLINA
- TENNESSEE
- TEXAS
- WASHINGTON
- Khalid Khan Sadozai at the Biomembrane Institute and University of
Washington, Seattle, WA. Sen-Itiroh Hakomori is adjunct faculty here also.
- WASHINGTON DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Derek Horton, Isbell Professor of Carbohydrate Chemistry
(carbchm@american.edu) at the American University, Washington DC.
- WISCONSIN
- CANADA
By Province:
- ALBERTA
- BRITISH COLUMBIA
- MANITOBA
- NEWFOUNDLAND
- NOVA SCOTIA
- ONTARIO
- George
Krepinsky at the Department of
Medicinal Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, ON.
- Gerald
O. Aspinall at York University,
Toronto, Ontario.
- Rene Roy and
H.H. Baer at the Department of
Chemistry, University of Ottawa, Ontario.
- Walter Szarek
at the Department of Chemistry, Queen's
University, Kingston, ON.
- Gustavo A.
Arteca at the Department of
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Laurentian
University of Sudbury, Ontario (gustavo@nickel.laurentian.ca).
- QUEBEC
- Other Sites in the REST OF THE WORLD
- JAPAN
(N.B., for a list of Japanese Universities, follow this link)
- Akira Hasegawa at the department of Applied Bioorganic Chemistry, Gifu
University, Gifu.
- Tomoya
Ogawa, Osamu Kanie (kokanee@postman@riken.go.jp) and Yukishige Ito, at
the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) at Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, Japan:
Laboratory
for GlycoTechnology. Lab heads also include Chi-Huey Wong
(see also the Scripps Institute, California, USA).
- Tsutoma Tsuchiya at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Kawasaki.
- Machiko Matsubara at the Kobe College of Pharmacy, Kobe.
- Kenichi Takeo, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Kyoto
Prefectural University, Shimogama, Kyoto.
- Takuya Kanemitsu and Tadahiro Takeda at Nagoya City University.
- Riichiro Uchida at the Research and Development Division, Kikkoman
Corporation, Noda City.
- Shoichi Kusumoto at Osaka
University, Osaka.
- Tomoya
Ogawa, Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Department of Cellular
Biochemistry, Tokyo University (see also RIKEN).
- Yoshio Nishimura at
the Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo.
- Hironobu Hashimoto at Tokyo
Institute of Technology.
- Tadahiro Takeda at Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy, Tokyo.
- Shinkiti Koto at the Department of
Chemistry, Kitasato
University, Tokyo
(all these links are currently only in Japanese: you have been warned!).
- Seiichiro Ogawa at the Department of
Applied Chemistry, Keio University, Yokohama (pages currently under
construction, but Japanese versions are available).
- T. Sakakibara at Yokohama.
- AUSTRALASIA
- NEW ZEALAND
- AUSTRALIA
- Stephen J. Angyal at the University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW.
- Professor Mark von
Itzstein, David J. Collins and Eric D. Jones at Monash
University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
- Michael Batley (michael.batley@mq.edu.au) at the School of Chemistry,
Macquarie Unbiversity, Sydney, NSW.
- ASIA
- Fanzuo Kong at Academia Sinica, Beijing.
- Yong-Zheng Hui at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academia
Sinica, Shanghai.
- Kambadoor N. Gurudutt at the Central Food Technological Research
Institute, Mysore, India.
- Uttam Kumar Saha and Muhund K. Gurjar at the Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India.
- Najim A. Al-Masoudi, University of Basrah, Iraq.
- Tien-Yau Luh, at the National
Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Lee
Gu-Soo in Korea.
- SOUTH AMERICA
- Ruben Contreras at Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencas,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Oscar Varela at the Department de Quimica Organica, Facultad de
Ciencas Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
- Jose Luis Daniotti and Hugo Maccioni at Departmento de Quimica
Biologica-CIQUIBIC, Universidad de Cordoba, Argentina.
- Maria-Cristina Roque-Barreira at the faculty of Medicine, UIniversity
of Sao Paulo, Ribeiro Preto, Brazil.
- AFRICA
- El Khadem, Cairo
- Haralambos Parolis at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rhodes
University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
These are groups who have published in thearea, or have some interest in
carbohydrate chemistry as a smaller part of their main research.
- Groups in the UNITED KINGDOM
- Groups in the REST OF EUROPE
- A.
Cesaro, A. Gamini, R. Urbani (carbohydrate polymers) and
S. Paoletti and
P. Cescutti at the University of Trieste. Also Juraj Bella
(bella@poly01.tbs.trieste.it) at the POLY-bios Researchg Center, Padiciano,
Trieste.
- Pedro M. Bonay at Centro de
Biologia Molecular "Severo Ochoa", UNiversidad Autonama de Madrid.
- Hartmut Fisher (tgtkhf@tb3.chem.tue.nl) at Eindhoven University of
Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- Professor Thomas Peters (tp@johann.chemie.mu-luebeck.de), Institute of
Chemistry, Medical University of Luebeck, Germany.
- Tadeusz Bieg and Wieslaw Szaja, Institute for Organic Chemistry and
Technology, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Pland.
- Groups in the USA and CANADA
- Groups in JAPAN
- Soh F. Osuka in the
Laboratory of Glycoscience and Glycobiology
(Yamagata lab), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa.
- Groups in the REST OF THE WORLD
Companies and Organisations dealing with Carbohydrate Chemistry
- Dextra Laboratories,
Reading, UK, manufacturers of a range of oligosaccharides.
- Chi-Huey
Wong and K.C.
Nicolaou at The Scripps Institute, California.
- Saeed Abbas, Mina Nashed, Narasinga Rao (rao@glycomed.com) and many
other workers, at GlycoMed, Alameda, California.
- Angela Karash at Pfanstiehl
Laboratories.
- Carbomer, in Canada.
- Jeremy Prodger at Glaxo
Wellcome, Stevenage, Herts.
- Alexander Toepfer at Zentralforscung der Hoechst, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany.
- Yin Bin Xiang, Genetics Institute Inc, Cambridge, MA.
- John A. Ragan, Pfizer Central Research, Groton, CT.
- Nigel M. Allanson, British Bio-technology, Cowley, Oxford.
- Transcell
Technologies, especially dealing with oligosaccharides
- International Gene Group
- T. Edmunds at Genzyme Corporation, USA.
- Glycorex, a Swedish
Glycobiology firm.
- Carbohydrate
Analysis at Virginia.
- Jim Bruce and others at Oxford
Glycosystems (ogs1@dircon.co.uk), Abingdon, Oxon, UK, and Donald
Gillies at Oxfors GlycoSystems, Bedford, Massachussets.
- Peter Tyler and Richard H.
Furneaux at DSIR/
Industrial Research Ltd, New Zealand: homepage
- Charles E. and David S. Dime, Vice Presidents of Toronto Research
Chemicals (torresch@interlog.com), North York, Ontario, Canada.
- Scott Doubet at CarbBank (CarbBank@PAcificRim.net), Bellingham, WA.
- Ronald Eby (Ronald_Eby_at_USLRMG01@internetmail.pr.cyanamid.com) at
Lederle-Praxis Biologicals, West Henrietta, NY.
- Pfanstiehl (Europe) Ltd., Davenham, Cheshire, U.K.
- Angela R. Karash (carbchem@mcs.com) at Pfanstiehl Laboratories, Inc.,
Waukegan, Illinois.
- Roger O'Neill and Shaheer Khan (khansh@ccmail.apldbio.com) at
Perkin-Elmer, Applied Biosystems Division, Foster City, California.
- Michael Partsch (mpartsch1@aol.com) at Neose Pharmaceuticals,
Horsham, Pennsylvania.
- J. Stanek at CIBA-GEIGY, Basle, Switzerland
- Alberta Research Council, Biotechnology Dept., Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Diagnostic Chemicals Ltd.(USA), Oxford, CT, U.S.
- MediChem Research, Inc., Lemont, IL, U.S.
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