CONGRATULATIONS to PROFESSOR ZHONGWU GUO on Receiving the 2021 Melville L. Wolfrom Award!
Dr. Guo is a Professor of Chemical Biology in the Department of Chemistry at University of Florida, has received the 2022 Melville L. Wolfrom award for outstanding service to CARB and the field of
carbohydrate chemistry.
Professor Guo pursued his undergraduate and masters degrees at The Second Military Medical University in Shanghai, China, then completed his doctoral degree at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in the Polish Academy of Sciences prior to undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After completing postdoctoral research, he began his independent career as an Assistant Professor at Case Western University, then moved to Wayne State University in 2005 and to University of Florida in 2016. Professor Guo’s research interests focus on the application of carbohydrate chemistry to cancer research, with a focus on developing carbohydrate-based vaccines and immunotherapies. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Carbohydrate
Chemistry.
