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| My young dream was to become a mathematician. However, the formal training I received was in pharmaceutical science, in the process of which I became more and more obsessed with organic chemistry. Eventually, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the Polish Academy of Sciences by working on organometallics. At the beginning of the 1990's, carbohydrate research started to boom, with the help of the discovery of several new glycosylation methods and the recognition of the biological significance of carbohydrates. The sweetness of carbohydrates also started to entertain my sensations. Consequently, after I went back to Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in 1991, I began to work with carbohydrates. Those years at SIOC were both challenging and very rewarding. In 1999, I decided to relocate to the US and entertain an offer from Case Western Reserve University, and six years later, I moved again to join the Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University. My main research interests are in the development of new methodologies for effective synthesis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates, total synthesis and structural studies of biologically important natural products, especially various glycoconjugates, and the discovery of new carbohydrate-based cancer immunotherapies. |
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Progress of Chinese-Americans in Academia
1:00 PM-4:45 PM, Sunday, August 19, 2007 Sheraton Boston -- Back Bay Blrm C, Oral
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