Woo is one of 126 early-career scholars who "represent the most promising scientific researchers working today"

In goggles and a blue lab coat, Assistant Professor Christina Woo smiles as she writes chemical equations on a glass surface in her lab.

She has reason to smile: In the last year alone, she and her growing lab won support from the Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience, the Ono Pharma Foundation in Chemical Biology, an NIH DP1 Avenir Award, the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator fund, and now a Sloan Research Fellowship.

For Woo, a “Rising Star in Chemical Biology” (so named by the International Chemical Biology Society), this Fellowship will help her promising research program expand, bringing in fresh people, ideas, and innovations to the nascent field of glycoscience.

Right now, Woo and her lab are focused on three major research areas:

Peering into the Cellular Black Box: We are combining chemical biology and mass spectrometry to reveal how small molecules interact with the proteome.

From Form to Function: We are engineering glycan stoichiometry on specific proteins to understand cellular signaling pathways in models of inflammation, pain, and neurodegeneration.

Gain of Function Natural Products: We are accessing unique chemical scaffolds to evaluate the regulation of protein interactions by novel mechanisms.

Learn more about Woo and her research program!