Alliance of Glycobiologists

News of the Alliance

"Sweetening The Search For Breast Cancer Biomarkers", Chemical & Engineering News, May 2, 2011.

"Antibodies Against Abnormal Glycoproteins Identified as Possible Biomarkers for Cancer Detection", NCI Press Release, February 2, 2010.

"Race against time. UNMC researchers to improve odds for patients with pancreatic cancer", UNMC Website, Nov. 12, 2009, http://www.unmc.edu.

"Ajit Varki: On the origins of maladies," Amy Maxmen, Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2009;206 1836-1837, published online; August 31, 2009.

"How Eating Red Meat Can Spur Cancer Progression," Debra Kain, UCS San Diego News Center, online. November 13, 2008.

"Major grants help researchers take on serious diseases and urban-health crises; William Hancock wants to catch breast cancer sooner," Northeastern University Alumni Magazine, Winter 2007/2008, vol. 33, no. 2.

"Stanford Tumor Glycome Laboratory ? A New Initiative of University's Postgenomics Research," Research News, Stanford University Online Feature, October 18, 2007.

"Award to UCSD to Fund Novel Approaches to Detecting Cancer," Debra Kain, UCS San Diego News Center, online. October 8, 2007.

"Sweet Science," Roberta Kwok, Food, Volume 30 Number 1, Fall 2007.

"New Initiative to Study the Glycobiology of Cancer Could Aid Understanding of Cancer Risk and Detection", NCI press release, Aug. 22, 2007.

"Tracking a killer," in Maximizing Research Opportunities, online feature, Aug 22, 2007.

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In Focus

Request For Applications (RFA) for Alliance of Glycobiologists for Detection of Cancer (U01)
RFA-CA-11-009

Submission Deadline: October 7 (expired)

Download reference files from the Pre-application Conference Call held on September 9. This page will continue to be posted for your reference.


Mining the O-glycoproteome using zinc-finger nuclease-glycoengineered SimpleCell lines. Nat Methods. 2011; 8:977-82


The National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council is conducting a study entitled “Assessing the Importance and Impact of Glycomics and Glycosciences.” For more information on this study see: http://glyco.nas.edu/

The scientific community is being asked to provide feedback to the NRC on this study at http://glyco.nas.edu/feedback

Phase I background report on glycosciences and glycomics in the US.

Last updated: January 27, 2012
 
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