13^th World Glycobiology Congress

Glycoscience

Glycoscience contributes in three important ways focusing on Understanding of Human health and diseases, searching for alternative sources of energy and innovating new materials. The glycoscience knowledge will be embedded in efforts to address fundamental challenges in health and sustainability.

Glycoscience deals with human health because this has been a main focus of efforts in the field of glycoscience and glycomics, mostly in the United States. Actually many scientists automatically think of health when they think of glycans and their functions. Other researchers clearly study  carbohydrates and their uses (e.g., in polymer engineering), the terminology and techniques used by these fields may differ. As a consequence, the scientific community may not immediately think of the entirety of glycan research as part of a unified field of glycoscience.