National Representatives
ICO members (updated Jul 2023)
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Carola Gallo (Argentina)
Departamento de Química Orgánica
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Pabellón 2, Ciudad Universitaria
Buenos Aires
Argentina
e-mail: cgallo@qo.fcen.uba.ar
Contact Details for Prof. Carmen Galan (United Kingdom)
ICO Secretary
School of Chemistry
Cantock’s Close
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TS
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1179287654
email: M.C.Galan@bristol.ac.uk
Contact Details for Assoc Professor Dr. Tanja Wrodnigg (Austria)
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Graz University of Technology
Stremayrgasse 9
810 Graz
Austria
Tel: +43 316 873 32433
e-mail: t.wrodnigg@tugraz.at
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Ivone de Carvalho (Brazil)
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto
University of São Paulo
Av do Café s/n – Monte Alegre
Ribeirão Preto – SP, Brasil
CEP 14.040-903
Brazil
Tel: +55(16) 33154709
Fax: +55(16) 33154879
e-mail: carronal@usp.br
Contact Details for Professor Dr. David Vocadlo (Canada)
Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Building, Office 9066Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
Tel: +1 778 782 3530
e-mail: dvocadlo@sfu.ca
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Biao Yu (P.R. China)
Shangai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
354 Fenglin Road
Shanghai 200032
P.R.China
Tel: +86 21 5492 5131
Fax:+86 21 6416 6128
e-mail: byu@mail.sioc.ac.cn
Contact Details for Dr. Vicente Verez Bencomo (Cuba)
Centro de Química Biomolecular
Calle 200 y 21, Rpto. Atabey, Apdo 16042
CP 11600
Ciudad de La Habana
Cuba
Tel: +537 208 5104
Fax: +537 273 6471
e-mail: vicente.verez@finlay.edu.cu
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Vladimir Kren (Czech Republic)
Institute of Microbiology
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Laboratory of Biotransformation
Videnska 1083
CZ-142 20 Prague 4
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 2 9644 2510 / 2569
Fax: +420 2 9644 2509
e-mail: kren@biomed.cas.cz
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Mads Clausen (Denmark)
Department of Chemistry
DTU – Technical University of Denmark
Kemitorvet 207
2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Tel: +45 45 25 21 31
Mob: +45 20 84 01 31
Fax: +45 45 93 39 68
e-mail: mhc@kemi.dtu.dk
Contact Details for Dr. Risto Renkonen (Finland)
Transplantation Laboratory
Haartman Institute
University of Helsinki
PO Box 21 (Haartmaninkatu 3)
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Tel: +358 9 1912 5111
Fax: +358 9 2411 227
email: risto.renkonen@helsinki.fi
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Anne Imberty (France)
Professor Dr. Anne Imberty
CERMAV – CNRS
BP 53
F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 09
France
Tel: 04 76 03 76 36
e-mail: anne.imberty@cermav.cnrs.fr
Contact Details for Prof. Dr. Valentin Wittmann (Germany)
Fachbereich Chemie
Universität Konstanz
Fach 709
D-78457 Konstanz
Tel: +49 7531 88-4572
Fax: +49 7531 88-4573
e-mail: Valentin.Wittmann@uni-konstanz.de
Contact Details for Prof. Anikó Borbás, D.Sc. (Hungary)
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Debrecen
4032 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1
Hungary
Tel: +36-52-512-900
E-mail: borbas.aniko@pharm.unideb.hu; borbas.aniko@science.unideb.hu
Contact Details for Professor Dr. N. Jayaraman (India)
Department of Organic Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore-560 012
India
Tel: +91 80 2293 2578
Fax: +91 80 2360 0529
e-mail: jayaraman@orgchem.iisc.ernet.in
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Paul Murphy (Ireland)
School of Chemistry
National University of Ireland Galway
Galway
Ireland
Tel: +353 91 492 460
Fax: +353 91 525 700
e-mail: paul.v.murphy@nuigalway.ie
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Timor Baasov (Israel)
The Edith and Joseph Fischer Enzyme Inhibitors Laboratory
Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000
Israel
Tel: +972 4 829 2590
Fax: +972 4 829 5703
email: chtimor@techunix.technion.ac.il
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Francesco Nicotra (Italy)
Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences
University of Milano-Bicocca
Piazza Della Scienza 2
I-20126 Milano
Italy
Tel: +39 2 6448 3310/3457
Fax:+39 2 6448 3569
e-mail: francesco.nicotra@unimib.it
Contact Details for Prof. Dr. Koichi Fukase (Japan)
Department of Chemistry
Osaka University
Osaka
Japan
Tel: +81-6-6850-5388
Fax: +81-6-6850-5419
e-mail: koichi@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Injae Shin (Korea)
Center for Biofunctional Molecules
Yonsei University
Seoul 120-749
Korea
Tel: +82 2 2123 2631
Fax: +82 2 364 7050
e-mail: injae@yonsei.ac.kr
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Geert-Jan Boons (The Netherlands)
David de Wiedgebouw
Universiteitsweg 99
Utrecht University
NL-3584 CG Utrecht
Netherlands
Mob: +31 6 4678 7597
e-mail: G.J.P.H.Boons@uu.nl
Contact Details for Professor Richard Furneaux (New Zealand)
Ferrier Research Institute
Victoria University of Wellington
Gracefield Innovation Quarter
69 Gracefield Road
PO Box 33-436
Lower Hutt 5046
New Zealand
Tel: +64 4 463 0049
Mob +64 21 888 694
e-mail: richard.furneaux@vuw.ac.nz
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Bjørn Christensen (Norway)
Department of Biotechnology and Food Science
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sem Saelands vei 6
Gløshaugen
Norway
Tel: +47 73593327
e-mail: bjorn.e.christensen@ntnu.no
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Slawomir Jarosz (Poland)
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Polish Academy of Sciences
Kasprzaka 44/52
PL-01-224 Warsaw
Poland
Tel: +48 22 343 2322 / 632 3789
Fax: +48 22 632 6681
e-mail: sljar@icho.edu.pl
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Amelia P. Rauter (Portugal)
Departamento de Química e Bioquímica
Faculdade de Ciências da
Universidade de Lisboa
ED C8, 5º Piso, Campo Grande
1749-016 Lisboa
Portugal
Tel: +351 21 750 0952
Fax:+351 21 750 0088
e-mail: aprauter@fc.ul.pt
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Nikolay E. Nifantiev (Russia)
Head of the Laboratory of Glycoconjugate Chemistry
N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
Russian Academy of Sciences
Leninsky Prospekt 47
Moscow B-334, 119991
Russia
Tel: +7 499-1358784
Mob: +7 985-9972846
e-mail: nen@ioc.ac.ru
Contact Details for Dr. Miloš Hricovíni (Slovakia)
Institute of Chemistry
Center of Glycomics
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dúbravská cesta 9
842 38 Bratislava
Slovakia
Tel: +421 2 5941 0323
Fax: +421 2 5941 0222
e-mail: chemilos@savba.sk
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Mary Kuttel (South Africa)
Department of Computer Science
University of Cape Town
Cape Town
South Africa
Tel: +27 21 650 5107
website
e-mail: mkuttel@cs.uct.ac.za
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Jesús Jiménez-Barbero (Spain)
Past President
Ikerbasque Research Professor
Scientific Director
CIC bioGUNE
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Edif. 801A-1º
48160 Derio- Bizkaia (Spain)
Tel: +34 944061310
e-mail: jjbarbero@cicbiogune.es
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Olof Ramström (Sweden)
Department of Chemistry / Organic Chemistry
KTH – Royal Institute of Technology
Teknikringen 36
S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46 8 7906915
Fax: +46 8 7912333
e-mail: ramstrom@kth.se
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Beat Ernst (Switzerland)
Pharmacenter
University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 50
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 267 1551
Fax: +41 61 267 1552
e-mail: beat.ernst@unibas.ch
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Chun-Hung Lin (Taiwan)
Institute of Biological Chemistry
Academia Sinica
128, Academia Road Sec 2
Nan-Kang, Taipei 11529
Taiwan
Tel: +886 2 2789 0110
Fax: +886 2 2651 4705
e-mail: chunhung@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Contact Details for Dr. Carmen Galan (United Kingdom)
School of Chemistry
University of Bristol
Cantock’s Close, Clifton
Bristol BS8 1TS
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 117 928 7654
e-mail: m.c.galan@bristol.ac.uk
Contact Details for Professor Dr. Alexei V. Demchemko (United States of America)
Department of Chemistry
Saint Louis University
3501 Laclede Ave
St. Louis, MO 63103
U.S.A
Tel: +1 314-977-2898
e-mail: alexei.demchenko@slu.edu