Structural Medicine I: The Importance of Glycomics for Health and Disease

Steering Committee


Expert Group on Structural Medicine, the impact
of glycans and glycoscience

Johannis P. Kamerling (Chair),
Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Rudolf Geyer (Vice-Chair), Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Bas R. Leefl ang (Secretary), Bijvoet Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Friedrich Altmann, Institute of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Applied
Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Anne Dell, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London,
United Kingdom
Otto Holst, Research Center Borstel, Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel,
Germany
Roman Jerala, National Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Biotechnology,
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Germain Puzo, CNRS, UPR 9062, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale,
Toulouse, France
Sandro Sonnino, L.I.T.A., Dipartimento di Chimica e Biochimica Medica,
Università degli Studi di Milano, Segrate, Italy
Göran Widmalm, Arrhenius Laboratory, Department of Organic Chemistry,
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden


ESF/MED (formerly EMRC) (European Medical Research Councils) Standing Committee:

Clemens Sorg
, University of Münster, Germany (Chair)

Ernst Th. Rietschel, Research Center Borstel, Center for Medicine and Biosciences,
Borstel, Germany (Executive Group Member)


ESF/MED (formerly EMRC) Staff:

Carole Moquin-Pattey
, Head of Unit
Hui Wang, Scientifi c Secretary, Biomedical Sciences (until December 2005)
Thomas Bruhn, Science Offi cer (since March 2006)