David F. Smith

Dr. Smith spent 9 years as the Director of the Protein-Glycan Interaction Resources of the Consortium for Functional Glycomics with Dr. Richard Cummings at Emory University School of Medicine and the previous 15 years in various positions in the biotechnology industry. His more than 45 years of experience in academic and industrial research has been primarily in the areas of protein-glycan interactions, methods development in glycomics, diagnostic assay development, and manufacturing of research reagents and diagnostic tests. He has worked closely with Dr. Song during development of methods for functional glycomics and is a co-author on pending patent applications with Dr. Song.