GLYTUNES

GLYTUNES is an Innovative Training Network (ITN) funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme. GLYTUNES represents a novel, pioneering platform for understanding and exploiting the Siglecs-glycans cross-talk by harnessing the synergy of combining chemical to biological, biophysical, immunological research strategies and finally translating this knowledge into novel diagnostics and therapeutics. The GLYTUNES training network involves leading scientists from academia and industry and offers doctoral research projects (PhD projects) for fourteen early stage researchers (ESRs). GLYTUNES will provide a new generation of high achieving ESRs, equipped with the technical and transferable skills necessary for thriving careers in an expanding area that underpins innovative technological development across a range of diverse disciplines. GLYTUNES will expose ESRs to a unique combination of “hands-on” research training, non-academic placements, courses, and workshops on scientific and complementary skills necessary for their future thriving careers in academia, clinical research or industry and to become the new leaders in the expanding research area of glycosciences. GLYTUNES addresses the challenge of understanding and exploiting the Siglecs-glycans axis by harnessing the synergy of combining chemical to biological, biophysical, immunological research strategies. The combined multidisciplinary and glycobiotechnological approach of GLYTUNES. In terms of societal needs and European policy targets, GLYTUNES addresses with timeliness and relevance the main priorities of the EU research council and EU policies concerning the use of innovative methodological, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches for the treatment of human disease and the improvement of human health.