Jon I. Quintana studied chemistry at the Universidad del País Vasco. In 2017, he joined the chemical glycobiology lab at CIC bioGUNE, where he employed different NMR techniques to characterize the binding of a monoclonal antibody to different oligosaccharides. In 2018, he started his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Jesús Jiménez-Barbero and Dr Ana Ardá, studying molecular recognition events between lectins and sugar by means of NMR, ITC, and MD simulations.
In 2021, he performed a secondment with Dr Martina Delbianco (MPIKI, Potsdam), where he worked on the synthesis of glycans using a solid phase synthesizer. He obtained his PhD in 2022, focusing on understanding host–pathogen interactions mediated through glycans.
Later that year, he joined the Glycotechnology Lab in CIC biomaGUNE working for Dr. Niels Reichardt. His research is focused on the synthesis stable isotope labelled (SIL) N-glycan standards combining enzymatic and traditional chemistry methods.
Glycotechnology Lab 