Martin Fascione (PI)
Martin leads an interdisciplinary glycoscience research group within the Department of Chemistry at the University of York, UK.
Martin received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. W. Bruce Turnbull on the stereoselective synthesis of 1,2-cis-glycosides. Following a postdoctoral period in Leeds, he was then awarded a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship to study the mechanisms of carbohydrate processing enzymes with Prof. Steve Withers, FRS, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada (2012-2013) and Prof. Gideon Davies, FRS, FMedSci, at the University of York, UK (2013-2014). In August 2014 he took up a lectureship in the York Structural Biology Laboratory, within the Department of Chemistry in York. His research interests include the chemical glycobiology of nonulosonic/sialic acids, synthetic and enzymatic carbohydrate chemistry, and the bioconjugation of proteins.
In 2022 he was awarded a five-year ERC Consolidator Grant (selected by the ERC, funded by UKRI), and the Royal Society of Chemistry's 'Dextra' Carbohydrate Award in 2025.
The Group
Josh Fair
Matthew Warnes
Cat Child
Beth Paterson
Tessa Keenan
Natasha Hatton
Saeed Akkad
Joe Nabarro
Anna Price
Yumiko Uno
James Jeffries
Dan Gilbert
Esme Hutton
Millie Curran
Bartosz Kowalski
Ben Schwabe
Lucy Anderson
Rosie Johnstone
Sophie Sargeant
Peter O'Shea
Group Photos
York Chemical Biology Group (Sep 2025)
Former Members
Dr Goutam Gucchait (PDRA, 2015-17)
Dr Darshita Budhadev (PDRA, 2016-18)
Dr Richard Spears (PhD, 2014-18)
Dr Harriet Chidwick (PhD, PDRA, 2014-20)
Dr Emily Flack (Biochem, PhD, 2014-19)
Dr Robin Brabham (MChem, PhD, 2014-19)
Dr Jenny Hayes (PhD, 2016-20)
Dr Lewis Gooch (PhD, 2016-20)
Dr Nick Yates (PhD, PDRA, 2016-22)
Dr Simeon Hubbard (PhD, 2021-25)
Dr Abby Walklett (PhD, 2021-25)
Dr Alice Hewson (PhD, 2021-25)
Dr Afzaal Tufail (PhD, 2021-25)
Dr Owen Hughes (PhD, 2022-25)
Gintare Bucaite (Biochem, 2014/15)
Karinna Saxby (Rotation PhD, 2015/16)
Andy Maxwell (Biochem, 2016/17)
Annika Husken (Erasmus, 2016/17)
Matthew Best (MChem, 2017/18)
Rhys Mills (MChem, 2017/18)
Lyndon Gledhill (MChem, 2018/19)
Elizabeth Watton (Biochem, 2018/19)
Jacob Bilsborrow (MChem, 2019/20)
Emily Morton-West (Biochem, 2019/20)
Gabriel Lipworth (MChem, 2020/21)
Jack McNeil (MChem, 2020/21)
William Ashwood (MChem, 2021/22)
Matteo Carraturo (MChem, 2021/22)
Sachin Black (MChem, 2022/23)
Ryan Brelsford (MChem, 2022/23)
Ethan Snape (MChem, 2023/24)
Vlad Turapov (MChem, 2024/25)