Congratulations to Hans Wandall
The board of the Danish National Research Foundation has decided to support the establishment of two new DNRF Centers of Excellence at ICMM.
The Centers of Excellence will conduct groundbreaking and innovative research that will help maintain Denmark’s position as one of the world’s leading research countries.
For Hans Wandall's new center "Center for Glycocalyx Research (CGR)" the foundation is prepared to grant up to 59,999,000 DKK.
Center for Glycocalyx Research (CGR) will "aim to redefine how the cell membrane is organized and functions, and how glycans are key to shaping a dynamic, yet stable cell membrane securing cellular and tissue stability and health. We will examine how the controlled expression of glycosyltransferases and glycan binding proteins have the ability to regulate protein functions, through an "epiproteome" similar to cells ability to regulate the genome through an epigenome. This is a new conception placing the glycocalyx centerstage to provide resistance against internal and external threats, including host-pathogen interactions."
The PIs in the center will be Hans Wandall, Katrine Schjoldager, Hiren Joshi, Rebecca Miller, Sergey Vakhrushev, Adnan Halim from ICMM, Jesper Velgaard Olsen from CPR and Sally Dabelsteen from Odontology.
The center is expected to open in 2025.
Read more in the press release from DNRF.
Read more about the new center.
