Zoeisha S. Chinoy received her Ph.D. in Chemistry, in 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Geert-Jan Boons at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia, USA. During her Ph.D., she developed the chemoenzymatic synthesis of complex N-glycans, and the synthesis of SKP1 glycopeptides. 

Following her Ph.D., she moved to France as a postdoctoral fellow to work under the expertise of Prof. Sébastien Lecommandoux in the field of polymer science, at the University of Bordeaux. In 2017, she joined the group of Dr. Frédéric Friscourt at the Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie in Bordeaux, where she worked on the chemoenzymatic preparation of labeled glycans for functional glycomics. 

In 2022 she became a permanent CNRS researcher at the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires (ISM, UMR5255) in Bordeaux, her work focuses on combining glycochemistry and polymer chemistry to develop a new generation of innovative glycan-based nanoparticles as nanocarriers for cell-impermeable glycobiology tools, and the highly specific targeting of specific cells to probe the changes in glycosylation under pathological conditions.

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS 

ANR JCJC 2025 Grant - Glycanosomes: Towards Advancing Glycobiology, 01/2026-12/2029. Résurgence CNRS 2024 Grant. Young Scientist Starting Grant 2023 – Le département Sciences de la Matière et du Rayonnement (SMR), Université de Bordeaux.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

1.     Strain-promoted bioorthogonal cycloadditions to investigate sialyltransferases promiscuity towards unnatural sialic acids. In Methods Enzymol., Urbach, A. R., Ed. Academic Press: 2026; Vol. 731, pp 31-44.

2.     A Clickable Bioorthogonal Sydnone-Aglycone for the Facile Preparation of a Core 1 O-Glycan-Array. Eur. J. Org. Chem.2022, e202200271. 

3.     Impacting Bacterial Sialidase Activity by Incorporating Bioorthogonal Chemical Reporters onto Mammalian Cell-Surface Sialosides. ACS Chem. Biol. 2021, 16, 2307.

4.     Multivalent Elastin-Like Glycopolypeptides: Subtle Chemical Structure Modifications with High Impact on Lectin Binding Affinity. ACS Macro Lett. 2021, 10, 65.

5.     Bioorthogonal Chemical Ligations Towards Neoglycoproteins. In Comprehensive Glycoscience (Second Edition), Barchi, J. J., Ed. Elsevier: Oxford, 2021; pp 660.

6.     Design of Polysaccharide-b-Elastin-Like Polypeptide Bioconjugates and Their Thermoresponsive Self-Assembly. Biomacromolecules 2020, 21, 114. 

7.     Selective Engineering of Linkage Specific α2,6-N-Linked Sialoproteins using Sydnone-Modified Sialic Acid Bioorthogonal Reporters, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 131, 4325. 

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