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The IMProGlyco project has welcomed a new partner to strengthen the consortium’s expertise in advanced glyco-analytics and biopharmaceutical research.
The HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (HUN-REN TTK) brings extensive experience in glycomics and glycoproteomics, enhancing the project’s capacity to better understand and control glycosylation in therapeutic proteins and cellular systems.
Within the IMProGlyco project, the institute will focus on the glycomic characterisation of selectively modified mammalian cell lines, alongside HPLC-MS-based glycoproteomic analysis of selectively modified target proteins. These activities will play a key role in improving the monitoring and reproducibility of glycosylation patterns, which are critical for the development of safe and effective biologic medicines.
Lilla Turiák, Co-Investigator at HUN-REN TTK, said: “By joining the IMProGlyco consortium, HUN-REN TTK will contribute cutting-edge glycomic and HPLC-MS glycoproteomic characterisation capabilities to help unravel and monitor glycosylation patterns in therapeutic proteins and cells. We are excited to support this highly interdisciplinary European effort toward more effective and reproducible biologics.”
The addition of HUN-REN TTK through the Horizon Europe Hop-on Facility highlights IMProGlyco’s commitment to bringing together leading scientific institutions to advance innovation in glycoengineering and biologics manufacturing, and extends the network’s technical reach in advanced glycoanalytics.
IMProGlyco was one of only 40 out of 1,189 proposals funded through the highly competitive European Innovation Council Pathfinder Open scheme, and was the only successful project led from the UK in its tranche. It is led by Professor Mike Webb from the School of Chemistry, and brings together partners including the University of York, BOKU University (Vienna), Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo University Hospital, GlycoSeLect, and the Centre for Process Innovation.
