Book description
This book contains contributions from interdisciplinary scientists to
collectively address the issue of targeting carbohydrate recognition for
the development of novel therapeutic and diagnostic agents. The book
covers (1) biological problems involving carbohydrate recognition, (2)
structural factors mediating carbohydrate recognition, (3) design and
synthesis of lectin mimics that recognize carbohydrate ligands with high
specificity and affinity, and (4) modulation of biological and
pathological processes through carbohydrate recognition.
BINGHE WANG
, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Georgia
State University as well as Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in
Drug Discovery. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Medicinal Research
Reviews, Series Editor for the Wiley Series in Drug Discovery and
Development, and editor of Drug Delivery: Principles and Applications
and Chemosensors: Principles, Strategies, and Applications (Wiley).
GEERT-JAN BOONS, PhD, is Franklin Professor of Chemistry and
Professor in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the
University of Georgia. He is on the editorial boards of several
journals on carbohydrates, including European Journal of Chemistry and
Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry, and is also coeditor of
Carbohydrate-Based Immunotherapies and Vaccines (Wiley).
