Founding CARTA Co-Director Receives 2023 Journal of Biological Chemistry Herbert Tabor Research Award.
We are proud to announce that Dr. Ajit Varki, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Founding Co-Director of CARTA, Founding Director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC) at UC San Diego, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute, will receive the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s 2023 Journal of Biological Chemistry Herbert Tabor Research Award for his work in the field of glycobiology.
You can read more from ASBMBToday Newsroom: "Varki Seeks Clues in Chimps, Grandmothers and Sialic Acid" (O'Flynn, B. 19 Oct. 2022) and the about the 2023 Journal of Biological Chemistry Herbert Tabor Research Award itself.
You may also wish to check out these related Open Access articles from Dr. Varki and colleagues:
- Samraj, A.N., Pearce, O.M., Läubli, H., Crittenden, A.N., Bergfeld, A.K., Banda, K., Gregg, C.J., Bingman, A.E., Secrest, P., Diaz, S.L. and Varki, N. and Varki, A. (2015). A red meat-derived glycan promotes inflammation and cancer progression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(2):542-547.
- Siddiqui, S.S., Vaill, M., Do, R., Khan, N., Verhagen, A.L., Zhang, W., Lenz, H.‐J., Johnson‐Pais, T.L., Leach, R.J., Fraser, G., Wang, C., Feng, G.‐S., Varki, N. and Varki, A. (2020) Human‐specific polymorphic pseudogenization of SIGLEC12 protects against advanced cancer progression. FASEB BioAdvances.
