Christopher W. Cairo, University of Alberta
Associate Professor
Centre for Carbohydrate Science
Department of Chemistry
Edmonton, Alberta
ccairo@ualberta.ca
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(780) 492-0377
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Chris originally hails from the great state of New York, where he pursued his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the State University of New York-Albany. In 1996, he moved on to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Prof. Laura L. Kiessling. After comp...
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Bio/Research
Chris originally hails from the great state of New York, where he pursued his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the State University of New York-Albany. In 1996, he moved on to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Prof. Laura L. Kiessling. After completing his graduate studies in 2002, he became an NIH Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology with Prof. David E. Golan. Chris began his appointment as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alberta in July of 2006, and is a Principal Investigator in the Alberta Glycomics Centre (formerly known as the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Carbohydrate Science (AICCS)), and is also a member of the Consortium for Functional Glycomics. His research interests include bioorganic and peptide chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, chemical biology, biophysics, and cell biology.
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