Institutional Homes & Key Consortia

The research underlying the work of the SUGAR lab was carried out across multiple research environments and collaborations. We gratefully acknowledge:

• University of Groningen — the current home of the Lageveen-Kammeijer SUGAR Lab within the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy (GRIP) and Analytical Biochemistry (AB), Faculty of Science and Engineering.

  • UMCG & FSE infrastructure investment — enabling state-of-the-art MSI capabilities to expand spatial biology and near-future spatial glycomics directions.

• NWO (VENI) — enabling the development of a single-cell glycomics workflow and oncology-focused glycosylation research.

• EU / ZonMW (PerMed) — supporting consortium work on biomarker/drug target validation using large-scale biobanking and advanced analytics.

• Astellas (ISR) — supporting evaluation and extension of PSA glycomics assay development toward clinically relevant applications.

• Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) — for the period in which key platform and biomarker assay development was performed, and for the collaborative environment bridging clinical questions with analytical innovation.

• Cure for Cancer Foundation & Astellas (fellowships) — supporting my PhD trajectory and early postdoctoral development, enabling high-resolution glycosylation workflow development and translation.

• Health~Holland (TKI-LSH) — supporting translational glycoscience efforts in colorectal cancer (tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens).

• European consortia & networks (including IBD-BIOM, HighGlycan, GlySign, GlyCoCan) — enabling collaborative science, shared expertise, and doctoral projects across institutions. Supported the work of K. Madunic, V. Kuzyk and A.B. Moran.

• CSC scholarships — supporting PhD research projects contributing to platform development and application studies of W. Wang, D. Wang and W. Wang.

• PRINT program — supporting researcher training and innovation within the lab of H.F. Loponte

Specific publications and projects also acknowledge their respective funders and collaborators; we aim to reflect those contributions clearly and consistently.

We sincerely thank our funders, collaborators, and institutional partners for enabling the science—and we aim to honour that support through rigorous, transparent, and openly shared research outputs.