Dextra Laboratories Celebrates Excellence in Carbohydrate Chemistry: Dr Martin A. Fascione Wins the 2025 RSC Dextra Carbohydrate Chemistry Award
August 8, 2025Dextra Laboratories is proud to announce that Dr Martin A. Fascione has been awarded the prestigious 2025 RSC Dextra Carbohydrate Chemistry Award, recognizing his exceptional contributions to the field...
Dextra Laboratories will sponsor the RSC carbohydrate Group Winter Meeting 2025
June 24, 2025Dextra Laboratories is proud to sponsor the 2025 Dextra Award, celebrating excellence in carbohydrate chemistry. This prestigious award recognises the outstanding contributions of an early- to mid-career scientist whose...
Nominations now open for the 2025 Dextra Carbohydrate Chemistry Award!
February 13, 2025The RSC Carbohydrate Interest Group is dedicated to recognizing excellence in carbohydrate chemistry and glycoscience. Every two years, the group honours an early-to-mid-career scientist for their outstanding contributions in...
Glycosyltransferases in Colorectal Cancer
February 22, 2024Glycosylation in CRC can affect cell migration, cell-cell adhesion, actin polymerization, mitosis, cell membrane repair, apoptosis, cell differentiation, stemness regulation, intestinal mucosal barrier integrity, immune system regulation, T cell...
Discover the ABO Blood Group Antigens
October 4, 2023The ABO blood typing system is of the utmost importance in transfusion and transplantation medicine.Structural knowledge of the blood group antigens has also enabled greater understanding of blood diseases...
The role of Iminosugars
August 25, 2023Iminosugars are naturally occurring carbohydrate analogues, where a nitrogen atom replaces the oxygen ring atom, and have been known since the early 1970’s.These natural compounds and their synthetic derivatives can...
Dextra Award Nominations 2023
January 24, 2023The nominations for the Dextra Carbohydrate Chemistry Award are officially open. This award, which is sponsored by Dextra Laboratories, was founded in 1970. It is presented to a scientist...
Royal Society of Chemistry Carbohydrate Award 2021
February 7, 2021Congratulations to Dr Gavin Miller as the recipient of the 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Carbohydrate Award, recognising his research into creating new probes for chemical glycobiology and for...