Translational GlycOmics Center
The Translational Glycomics Center is part of the Versiti Blood Research Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We focus our efforts on platelet and glycan-based research under the direction of Karin Hoffmeister, MD. The TGC hosts an annual Translational Glycomics Symposium each year, featuring nationally renowned speakers. The center is also part of the first NHLBI established consortium of four sites to focus on career development of the next generation of biomedical investigators in glycoscience. The ultimate goal of the consortium is to push glycoscience from a niche research area into the forefront of mainstream medical research.
Karin Hoffmeister became the Director of the Translational Glycomics Center at the Versiti Blood Research Institute (Milwaukee, WI) in 2017. The goal of the Center is to determine how glycans and glyco-genetics regulate hematopoiesis during development, under steady state and in disease. The combination of her skills as a clinician-scientist keeps the Center focused on translational aspects of research and is a prerequisite to the often needed “out of the box” thinking when approaching relatively unknown areas of investigation, such as glycans and regulation of glycol-genetics.
Translational GlycOmics K12 Program
For the first time, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) offered a K12 Career Development Program in translational glycosciences called “National Career Development Consortium for Excellence in Glycosciences.”
This program is located at several sites nationwide, including: the Versiti Blood Research Institute (VBRI) and the Center for Translational Glycomics, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW); Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Roswell); and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
The Program supports and educates glycoscientists so they can better understand the functional diversity and specificity of glycans.
For more information, visit: Translational GlycOmics Program for Career Development in Glycoscience
Social Media Links
Dr. Karin Hoffmeister: https://twitter.com/TranslGlycOmics;
https://www.linkedin.com/in/khoffmeister/
Translational Glycomics Center: https://twitter.com/CenterGlycomics