Episode 5: Professor Mia Huang

Professor Mia Huang is Chinese and Taiwanese, but spent her youth growing up in the Philippines. At 18, she moved to New York to receive her undergraduate degree from CUNY Queens College. From there, she graduated from New York University with a Ph.D. while completing research with Prof. Kent Kirshenbaum. Following a postdoc with Prof. Kamil Godula at UCSD, she now runs her independent lab out of the Scripps Research Institute where she is an Associate Professor. Her group’s research interests include all things glycans, particularly in the pursuit of understanding the mechanism through which glycans orchestrate certain biological events. Some areas of research include non-canonical glycosylation, proteoglycan architecture, and glycan proofreading. She has received numerous awards recently including a recipient of 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2023 Pivotal Life Sciences Foundation Awardee, and 2023 Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation Awardee.

For more information about Professor Huang and her group: https://www.huangresearch.com/

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