National Consortium for Excellence in Glycosciences: Mentors

Name	Expertise	Location	Mentee(s)
Thomas Abshire, MD	Hematology / Tra nsfusion Medicine / Imm unology	Blood Research Institute, Versiti
Marianna Alperin, MD, MS	Pelvic Floor Disorders	University of California, San Diego	Francesca Boscolo
Galit Alter, MD	Antibody Glyc osylation / Humoral Immunity	Harvard Medical School
Mark E. Anderson, MD, PhD	Heart Failure / Arrhythmia / Cardiovascular Disease / Sudden Cardiac Death	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Priya Umapathi Olurotimi Mesubi
Robert Anthony, PhD	Immunoglobulin Glycosylation	Harvard Medical School	Kai-Ting Shade
Pablo Argüeso, PhD	Mucins / Wound Repair	Harvard Medical School
Mark A. Aronica, MD	Asthma	Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute	Angelica Ueltschy
Kuberan Balagurunathan, PhD	Bioinformatics / GAGs	University of Utah
Lars Bode, PhD	Human Milk Glycans	University of California, San Diego
Robert Brodsky, MD	Bone Marrow Failure, Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Samuel Merrill
Michael D. Burkart, PhD	Antibiotic Biosynthesis	University of California, San Diego	Graham Heberlig
Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD	Glycobiological Structure / Function Studies	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Jiaxuan Chen
Andrew Chisholm, PhD	C. elegans Development	University of California, San Diego
Laurie Comstock, PhD	Intestinal Microbiota	Harvard Medical School
John A. Corbett, PhD	Lysosomal Storage Disease / Diabetes / Metabolic Disorders	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Richard D. Cummings, PhD	Cancer Glycobiology / Inflammation	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Jane Cheng Kathryn Stackhouse
Nancy M. Dahms, PhD	Lysosomal Storage Disease	Medical College of Wisconsin	Chen Chen Adam Kanack Dawn Wenzel Yiwen Cui
Srinivasan Dasarathy, MD	Inflammation & Immunity	Cleveland Clinic	Nicole Welch Amy Attaway
Gregory A. Denomme, PhD	Immunology / Hematology	Blood Research Institute, Versiti
Umesh R. Desai, PhD	GAGs / Proteomics	Virginia Commonwealth University	Daniel Afosah
Charles Dimitroff, PhD	Lectin-Carbohydrate Interactions	Brigham & Women's Hospital
Adam Engler, PhD	Extracellular Matrix	University of California, San Diego	Francesca Boscolo
Serpil C Erzurum, MD	Translational research of lung pathologies	Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute	Anny Mulya
Jeffrey D. Esko, PhD	Proteoglycans	University of California, San Diego	Ryan Weiss
Hervé Falet, PhD	Hematology / Transfusion Medicine / Platelets	Medical College of Wisconsin
Christiane Ferran, MD, PhD	Molecular Signatures of Homeostasis	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Mark M. Fuster, MD	Cancer / Angiogenesis	University of California, San Diego	So-Young Kim
Pascal Gagneux, PhD	Reproduction	U niversity of California, San Diego
Richard L. Gallo, MD, PhD	Skin Biology	University of California, San Diego
Kamil Godula, PhD	Glycoengineering	University of California, San Diego	Ryan Porell
Philip Gordts, PhD	Lipid Metabolism	University of California, San Diego	Michelle Ducasa Chelsea Painter
Sophie Groux-Degroote, MS PhD	Glycobiology in Cancer	University of Sciences and Tech of Lille
Rebekah Gundry, PhD	Mass Spectrometry / Stem Cell Biology	Medical College of Wisconsin
Tracy M. Handel, PhD	Chemokines	University of California, San Diego
Gerald W. Hart, PhD	Translation and Mitochondrial Functions by O-GlcNAc / Nutrient Regulation of Transcription	University of Georgia	Priya Umapathi
Vincent C. Hascall, PhD	Hyaluronan in Diabetic Pathologies	Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute	Amina Abbadi Angelica Ueltschy Yan Wang Nicole Welch Anny Mulya
Adam M. Hawkridge, PhD	Glycomics / Proteomics / Mass Spectrometry	Virginia Commonwealth University
Karin Hoffmeister, MD	Transfusion Medicine / Glycomics / Hematology	Translational Glycomics Center	Waseem Anani Melissa Lee-Sundlov
David Kass, MD	Elucidating new mechanisms and treatments for cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Jean Kim, MD, PhD	Translational Research in Chronic Rhinosinusitis / Pathogenesis of Hyperplastic Nasal Polyposis	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Anabel Alvarenga
Vijay Kuchroo, DVM, PhD	Autoreactive T-cell Biology	Brigham & Women's Hospital
Thomas S. Kupper, MD	Skin-homing T cells / Tissue resident T cells	Brigham & Women's Hospital
Robert Langer, ScD	Biotech and Material Science	MIT	Elizabeth Calle
Joseph T.Y. Lau, PhD	Glycosylation / Hematology / Glycan	Roswell Park Division, State University of New York	Tianxin (Sheena) Yu Jinchao (Chris) Zhang Sophia Balderman Ogechi Ogoke
Kelvin P. Lee, MD	Hematology / Immunology	Jacobs School of Medicine, University at Buffalo
Amanda L. Lewis, PhD	Bacteriology / Women's Health	University of California, San Diego
Nathan E. Lewis, PhD	Systems Biology	University of California, San Diego	Sridevi Krishnan
Michael K. Mansour, MD, PhD	Therapies Against Fungal Infections	Harvard Medical School
Edward V. Maytin, MD, PhD	Hyaluronan / Wound Healing	Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute	Yan Wang
Philip McCarthy, MD	Hematology / Immunology	Jacobs School of Medicine, University at Buffalo
Anne Murphy, MD	Cardiomyopathy and key proteins that are part of the contractile apparatus	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
George Muschler, MD	Aging / Cell Processing / Cell Fabrication / Cellular Therapy / Clinical Stem Cell Biology / Cell Based Assays / Tissue Engineering / Regenerative Medicine	Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute	Amina Abbadi
Sriram Neelamegham, PhD	Glycosylation / Glycomics	School of Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo
Enid Neptune, MD	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, critical care medicine, and Marfan syndrome	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Peter J. Newman, PhD	Hematology / Glycan / Vascular Biology	Blood Research Institute, Versiti
Peter Nigrovic, MD	Rheumatic Disease / Arthritis	Brigham & Women's Hospital
Victor Nizet, MD	Bacterial Pathogenesis	University of California, San Diego	Sun-Mi Choi Ruth Siew
Brian O'Rourke, PhD	Heart Failure / Ischemia-Reperfusion / Arrhythmias / Molecular Manipulation of Cardiac Excitability	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Kyriakos Papanicolaou
Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen, PhD	O-GlcNAcylation, pre- and post-natal development, Non-Nutritive Sweeteners, Microbiome	Medical College of Wisconsin	Dawn Wenzel Yiwen Cui
Bernhard Palsson, PhD	Systems Biology	University of California, San Diego
Bhaumik B. Patel, MD	GAGs	Virginia Commonwealth University
Gentry N. Patrick, PhD	Neurobiology	University of California, San Diego
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, PhD	Neurobiology	University of California, San Diego	Richard Sanchez
Gerald B. Pier, PhD	Bacterial Infection / Vaccine Design	Harvard Medical School
Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD	B-cell Immunology	Harvard Medical School
Krishna Rajarathnam, PhD	GAGs	University of Texas
Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, MD, PhD	Computational Biology of Microbial Communities	Harvard Medical Center
Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD	Stem Cell Biology	Blood Research Institute, Versiti
Ellis Reinherz, MD	Immunorecognition	Harvard Medical School
William J. Rhead, MD	Gene Therapy / Metabolic Disorders	Medical College of Wisconsin
Robert Sackstein, MD, PhD	Glycoengineering Cell Surfaces	Florida International University	Dorothy Contiguglia-Akcan John O'Malley Ryan Jajosky Kevin Chandler Mark Murakaumi
Ronald Schnaar, PhD	Functions of Glycans and Glycan Recognition in Intercellular Interactions in the Innate Immune and Nervous Systems	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Samuel Merrill Anabel Alvarenga
Brahm Segal, MD	Infectious Disease / Immunology / Hematology	Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Christina Sigurdson, PhD	Protein Aggregation	University of California, San Diego	Julia Callender
Joseph G. Sodroski, MD	HIV-1 Envelope Glycoproteins	Harvard Medical School
Timothy Springer, PhD	Integrin Signaling	Harvard Medical School
Sean Stowell, MD	Pathology	Harvard Medical School	Ryan Jajosky
Yitzhak Tor, PhD	Aminoglycosides	University of California, San Diego	Phillip Bartels
Ajit Varki, MBBS	Sialic Acids	University of California, San Diego	Dillon Chen Ruth Siew
Hartmut Weiler, PhD	Hematology / Immunology / Vascular Biology	Medical College of Wisconsin
Robert Weiss, MD	Developing non-invasive imaging and spectroscopy techniques for cardiac disease; Aging	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Christina Woo, PhD	Small Molecule Protein Interaction	Harvard Medical School
Alice Yu, MD, PhD	Antiganglioside Therapy	University of California, San Diego
Natasha Zachara, PhD	Regulation of Cell Survival Decisions by O-GlcNAc	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Kyriakos Papanicolaou Olurotimi Mesubi

Previous Mentors

Name	Expertise	Location
Carol de la Motte, PhD	Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) / GI Barrier Defense / Hyaluronan	Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute
Raed Dweik, MD	Role of nitric oxide in lung physiology and pathophsiology of lung diseases	Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute
Linda Graham, MD	Smooth muscle cell function bypass grafts	Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute
Ronald J. Midura, PhD	Skeletal Physiology / Fracture Healing / Osteoporosis	Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute