The Next Frontier in Complex Biology: Glycoscience

What’s in a name: BioBeyond_NL aims to realize an infrastructure that allows Dutch researchers to understand biological complexity.
Beyond the current frontiers of our knowledge with beyond of the state-of-the-art infrastructure and a team that takes knowledge beyond the boundaries of their own disicipline to break boundaries in complex Glycoscience. In this complexitiy and adaptability is where the true mechanisms of life regulation are hidden. And we set out to discover thoise. Glycans are ignored by most life science researchers because of the technical hurdles preventing their easy identification and characterisation.

Understanding of life beyond the central dogma
Not everything is regulated by genes so we need understand the role of sugars in the complex interplay between all the different classes of molecules. For that reason several infrastructural programs on the roadmap have decided to join forces and merge into a innovative glycoscience infrastructure. Understanding the sugar coating of these different molecular classes. : important for drug and vaccine development, diagnostics and personalized medicine.

The Netherlands Pioneers
• Detailed glycostructure complexity analysis
• Ultrafast high resolution glycoimaging
• Innovative probes for glycan recognition
• Instrumentation innovation for glycomics
• Expertise and education in glycoscience
• Broadly accessible