Joshua Kofsky

Josh is a carbohydrate chemist and glycobiologist exploring the sweet world of glycans, the sugar structures coating cells that play important roles in health and disease. He is a Vanier Scholar and Ph.D. candidate with Dr. Chantelle Capicciotti at Queen’s University (Canada), where he completed his B.Sc. in chemistry (2020). His research focuses on the chemoenzymatic synthesis of complex glycans and developing chemical biology tools to study how these biomolecules impact cellular functions and cell-to-cell communication.