Dr. Harry Schachter

Dr. Harry Schachter portrait

Harry Schachter Honoured with the Rosalind Kornfeld Award

1 September 2010|

The Society for Glycobiology has just announced that Dr. Harry Schachter (Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist Emeritus, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto) has been awarded the Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology.

Dr. Schachter made many seminal contributions to glycobiology and the biochemistry of glycan synthesis for more than four decades. Early on Dr. Schachter was a leader in establishing many robust enzyme […]

Ken Lau and Jim Dennis discover how cell surface receptor levels are regulated by nutrient availability and by the number of receptor N-glycans

29 May 2008|

Ken Lau won the Beckman-Coulter Prize for the best graduate student paper of 2007, and gave a lecture on May 29th at the International Symposium Celebrating the 100 Anniversary of the Department of Biochemistry at U. of T.

The Lau et al paper published in Cell (2007) 129:123 entitled “Complex N-glycan number and degree of branching cooperate to regulate cell proliferation and differentiation” provides new insight on the role of protein […]