NAME:

Ole Hindsgaul

ADDRESS:

Carlsberg Laboratory, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, Valby-Copenhagen, DK-2500, Denmark

NATIONALITY:

Canadian
Born May 12, 1951; Nykobing, Falster, Denmark

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: 

 

1973 - B.Sc.

McGill University

1980 - Ph.D.

University of Alberta (Professor R.U. Lemieux, supervisor)

Thesis title:  "Synthetic and Immunochemical Studies Related to the Human H and Lea Antigenic Determinants" 

POSITIONS HELD: 

 

1980-1981

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry

                                                                        University of California, Berkeley (Professor C.E. Ballou, supervisor)

1981-1986

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scholar(Assistant Professor), Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

1986-1988

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

1988-1992

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

1992-2003

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

1994-2004

Adjunct Senior Staff Scientist, The Burnham Institute (formerly La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation), La Jolla, California

2003-2005

Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

2003-  

Professor of Carbohydrate Chemistry, Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark

RECOGNITION and AWARDS 

 

1973   

Quebec Corporation of Professional Chemists Award

1978-1980

NSERC Graduate Fellowship

1980-1981

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship

1981-1986

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scholar

1990   

Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada

1990

Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Research Lecture Award

1993-1995

Steacie Fellowship (NSERC)

 

1995

Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Carbohydrates

1995

Eminent Visiting Scientist Award, RIKEN Institute, Saitama, Japan

1995

SANDOZ Chemistry Lectureship Award

1998

Roy L. Whistler Award for Outstanding Contributions in Carbohydrate Chemistry (Awarded by the International Carbohydrate Organization)

2001

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada – Academy of Science

2005

Bjerrum Chemistry Prize, Bjerrum-Brønsted-Lang Lecture

2006

Elected Foreign Member, Royal Danish Akademi of Sciences and Letters

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

 

Carbohydrate Research (1990-2000)

Glycobiology (1991-2005)

Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry (1992-present)

Carbohydrate Letters (1993-2002)

Journal of Biological Chemistry (1995-1998)

Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening (1997-2003)

Inflammation and Allergy (2001-2005)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

 

Int’l Carbohydrate Symposium, Sci. Org. Committee, Tokyo, Japan 2010

Knud Lind-Larsen Symposium Organizing Committee, 2010

XVIIth Nordic Glycobiology Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008

24th Intl. Carbohydrate Symposium, Oslo, Norway (2008)

Knud Lind-Larsen Symposium Organizing Committee, 2008 (Chair)

Chief Organizer, Benzon Symposium No. 54: Glycosylation: Opportunities in Drug- Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007

Knud Lind Larsen Symposium Committee, Copenhagen Denmark, 2006

Session Organizer, XVIII Symposium on Glycoconjugates, Italy, 2005

Session Chair, 2002, Canadian Society for Chemistry, Vancouver, B.C.

Session Organizer, 2001 Canadian Society for Chemistry, Montreal, Que.

Session Organizer, 1999 Society for Glycobiology Meeting, San Francisco

Symposia Co-Chairman, XV International Glycoconjugate Symp. Tokyo

Session Organizer, 1998 International Carbohydrate Symposium, Calif.

Session Organizer, Canadian Society for Chemistry, Whister, B.C.

Cdn Society for Chem., Symp. on Carbohydrate Synthesis; May 1998

5NACC Symposium. “Biological Applications of Synthetic Carbohydrates, Mexico; Nov. 1997

XIVth Int’l Symposium on Glycoconjugates, Zürich, Switz.; Sept. 1997

Section Co-Chair, 212th Nat’l ACS Mtg., Orlando, FL, USA; Aug. 1996

XIIIth Int’l Symp. on Glycoconjugate, Seattle, WA., USA; August, 1995

Chairman, Gordon Research Conf. on Carbohydrates, USA; June 1995.

XVIIth International Carbohydrate Symp., Ottawa, Canada; July, 1994

Session Chair, Biocatalysis, Gordon Research Conf., USA; June 1994

Selection Committee, Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Research Lecture Award (CSC). 

RECENT INVITED LECTURES:

 

2010

Hungarian Carbohydrate Society Meeting, Budapest, Hungary (May)

International Symposium on Glycosciences, Taipei, Taiwan (July)

2009

Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Basel, Switzerland (February)

15th EuroCarb Symposium (Closing Plenary Lecture), Vienna, Austria (July)

2nd Annual Medigly Symposium, Gullmarstrand, Sweden (September)

Wynne-Jones Memorial Lecture, University of Newcastle, UK (October)

Department of Chemistry, University of Namur, Belgium (November)

Department of Chemistry, University of Lyon, France (November)

CERMAV/CNRS, University of Grenoble, France (November)

2008

Mini-Symposium on Hot Topics in Chemical Biology. Copenhagen, Denmark

Department of. Applied Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Department of Synthetic Cellular Chemistry, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan

Department of Chemistry,Yokohama-City University,  Japan

Department of Chemistry, Osaka University,Osaka, Japan

Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Tottori University, Japan

Department of Chemistry, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

Center for Post-Genomic Sciences, University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan

 27th Conference on Combinatorial Chemistry (Plenary Lecture) Tokyo, Japan

4th Berlin Glycan Symposium, Berlin Germany

College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

Department of  Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle USA

Biotech Students Association Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2007

19th Int’l Symposium on Glycoconjugates, Keynote Lecture, Cairns, Australia

Symposium on Glycochemistry and Glycobiology, Hamburg Germany

Department of Pharmacol. and Molec. Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD USA

Glycobiology Interest Group, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA

Royal Danish Akademi of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006:

XXXIII International Symposium n Carbohydrates, Whistler, Canada

Analytica 2006, Munich, Germany

Royal Society Carbohydrate Meeting, Liverpool, UK

Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Copenhagen, Denmark

Glycans 2006, Bangalore, India

E. Merck, Darmstadt, Germany

Department of Chemistry, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

2005:  

Glycosciences Workshop, Royal Society, London UK

iNANO Center, Aarhus University, Denmark

Inaugural Lecture, Annual Glycobiology Meeting, Boston, MD, USA

XVIII International Symposium on Glycoconjugates, Firenze, Italy

Gordon Research Conference on Carbohydrates, Tilton NH, USA

Novo Nordisk, Måløv, Denmark

Bjerrum Prize Lecture, Copenhagen, Denmark

2004:

XXth Meeting, French Carbohydrate Group, Dourdan, France, (Banquet Lecture)

Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Department of Chemistry, Royal Veterinary University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Knud Lind Larsen Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003:

Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

“Frontiers in Chemistry”, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Eurocombi-2 (ESCS), Copenhagen, Denmark

Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON Canada

Int’l Glycoconjugate Symposium, Bangalore, India

2002:  

Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, AB Canada

18th  Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Asilomar, CA USA

Frontiers in Science; Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark

Uppsala Kongress and Konferens (GlycoT 2002), Stockholm. Sweden

The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, CA USA

Canadian Society of Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Vancouver, BC Canada

Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2 lectures)

Glycobiology Symposium 5, San Diego, CA USA 

2001

Eurocarb 2001, Lisbon, Portugal

CSC Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC Canada

I.J. Goldstein Symposium, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA (2 lectures)

LabAutomation, Palm Springs, CA USA

2000   

PacificChem 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, QC Canada

XXIst Japanese Carbohydrate Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, (Plenary Lecture)

Canadian Society of Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Calgary, AB Canada

2nd International Glycosyltransferase Symposium, Toronto, ON Canada

Synsorb Biotech Inc., Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, Calgary, AB Canada

Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI USA

Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, CA USA

Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Athens, GA USA

1999

Society for Glycobiology Meeting, San Francisco, CA USA

Wyeth-Ayerst, New York, USA

Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus OH USA

RIKEN Forum, Saitama, Japan,

Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, USA

Glycoconjugates in Biological Systems. Uppsala, Sweden

Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Athens, GA USA

Tokushima International Symposium “New Frontiers…” Tokushima, Japan

XVth International Glycoconjugate Symposium, Tokyo, Japan

Astra-Zeneca, Montreal, QC, Canada

Schering-Plough, Newark, N.J. USA

Eli-Lilly, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Swedish Agricultural University, Uppsala, Sweden

Merck Frosst Canada, Montreal, QC, Canada

Biochem Pharma, Montreal, QC, Canada

Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network AGM, Banff, AB, Canada

Univ. of California, Dept. of Molecular Sciences-Los Angeles, CA USA

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Synsorb Biotech Inc., Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, Calgary, Canada

Naff Symposium, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

ACS National Meeting, Speaker at C.S. Hudson Awards Symp., CA USA

Int’l Symp. Tendencias Y Perspectivas Sobre Los Glicoconjugados, Barcelona, Spain

Lake Tahoe Symposium on Molecular Diversity, Lake Tahoe, CA USA

2nd San Diego Glycobiology Symposium, San Diego, CA USA