Richard D. Cummings

Director, National Center for Functional Glycomics Professor, Department of Surgery
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School https://ncfg.hms.harvard.edu/people/richard-d-cummings

Host: Iain Wilson (Chemie)

Prof. Cummings is a Visiting Professor at the BOKU (28th May – 9th June 2018); his research focuses on the fundamental biological processes regulating cell adhesion and signaling with particular
emphasis on the functions of glycans in glycoproteins and other glycoconjugates; his laboratory studies a wide variety of glycan binding proteins, e.g., C-type lectins and galectins, and their roles in
specific cellular functions. He is also holding a series of lectures for students (Glycan recognition in the context of biological functions and disease processes, 772.006; see BOKU online for details).