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Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
PhD in Chemistry, University of Southern California
BSc and MSc in Chemistry, China Agricultural University
Senior Research Scientist,
Chugai Pharma USA
Research Scientist, Proctor
& Gamble Pharmaceuticals
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, College of
Science
Nanyang
Technological University
E-mail: xuewei@ntu.edu.sg
Office:
SPMS-CBC-05-02; Telephone: (65) 6316 8901
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Our New Website: https://liuxuewei.wixsite.com/glycoscience
Awards and Honors
2021
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Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
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2019
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College of Science Collaborative Research Awards
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2016
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First Place Award, The 2nd NTU-ICES (A*STAR) Joint Science
Program
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2012
2012
2011
2011
2009
2007
2006
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The 7th Asian Core Program (ACP) Lectureship Award (to China)
CoS Collaborative Research Award
The 6th Asian Core Program (ACP) Lectureship Award (to Taiwan)
The 6th Asian Core Program (ACP) Lectureship Award (to Korea)
Young
Researcher Award
Excellent Presentation Award, Thailand
The 1st Asian Core Program (ACP) Lectureship Award (to Japan)
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Presentation
at international venues
Plenary
Presentations
1. **Plenary speaker,
“Synthetic Biohybrid Peptidoglycan Oligomers Enable Pan-bacteria-specific
Metabolic Labeling and Active Targeting”, 中国化学会第三届全国糖化学会, Baoding, China, 21-22 September, 2019.
2. **Plenary speaker,
“Tailor-made Peptidoglycans and Glycoconjugates for Antimicrobial
Research”, The Joint Meeting of 11th International Symposium on
Integrated Synthesis (ISONIS-11) and 3rd International Symposium on
Middle Molecular Strategy (3rd ISMMS), Awaji Island, Japan,
16-18 November, 2017.
3. **Plenary speaker (大会特邀嘉宾),
“Synthesis of Antimicrobial Peptides, Glycopeptides and Peptidoglycans”,
The 1st Symposium of Carbohydrate Synthesis (首届糖合成化学高峰论坛), Jinan, China, 15-16 May, 2017.
4. *Plenary speaker,
“New Glycosylation Methods and New Glycosylated Nanodevices Interfacing
with Living Cells”, The 15th Tetrahedron Symposium Asia, Singapore Expo, Singapore, 28-31 October, 2014.
5. **Plenary speaker,
“Efficient Synthesis of Oligosaccharides and Biosensors based on
Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions”, Symposium on Glycobiology & Glycobiotechnology, Xi-An, China,
16-19 July, 2014.
6. **Plenary speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, Gordon Conference, Mt Snow, Vermont, USA, June
16-21, 2013.
7. **Plenary speaker,
“Carbohydrate-Lectin Interaction in Glycoscience”,
7th Glycan Forum, Berlin,
Germany, 20-22 March, 2013.
8. **Plenary speaker,
“Stereoselective Synthesis of Carbohydrates and Natural Products via
Facial Control”, 12th International Symposium for Chinese
Organic Chemists (ISCOC) and 9th International Symposium for Chinese
Organic Chemists (ISCIC), Lanzhou,
China, 19–22 August, 2012.
9. **Plenary speaker, “Design and
Synthesis of New Therapeutic Agents for Cancers”, Combinatorial Chemistry and Chemical Biology toward
A New Paradigm for Drug Discovery (CCCB), and 28th Conference on
Combinatorial Chemistry (JCCF28), Osaka, Japan, 24-25 September,
2009.
Keynote
Presentations
1. *Keynote
speaker, “Dual native chemical ligation for the synthesis of
naturally modified protein”, Pacifichem2021 Honolulu/online December
16-21, 2021.
2. *Keynote
speaker,
“Synthetic Biohybrid Peptidoglycan Oligomers Enable Pan-bacteria-specific
Metabolic Labeling and Active Targeting”, 7th
International Symposium on Middle Molecular Strategy (ISMMS-7), Kobe and
online, 15 October, 2021.
3. *Keynote speaker, “Exploring and Exploiting
Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions in Biomedical Context: Nano Approaches”,
Asian Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology Webinar, online, 21 May,
2021.
4. *Keynote speaker, “Synthetic Biohybrid
Peptidoglycan Oligomers Enable Pan-bacteria-specific Metabolic Labeling and Active Targeting”, The 18th
Asian Chemical Congress, Taipei,
Taiwan, 8-12 December, 2019.
5. *Keynote speaker, “Engineering
Bacterial Cell Wall with Synthetic Peptidoglycans”, The 11th Asian
Community of Glycoscience and Glycotechnology (ACGG) Conference, Busan, Korea, 11-14, November, 2019.
6. **Keynote speaker,
“Simplicity in Complexity: Advanced Glycosylation for Carbohydrate and
Glycoconjugate Synthesis”, 第21 届中国科协年会——海峡两岸暨港澳绿色发展青年论坛, Harbin, China, 28 June – 1 July, 2019.
7. *Keynote speaker, “Glycosciences: The Next Biomolecular Frontiers”, ANNUM
VI (Asian network for natural and unnatural materials) conference, Gifu, Japan, 27-28 July 2018.
8. *Keynote speaker,
“Dual Glycosylation: A Minimalist Approach for Oligosaccharide
Synthesis”, The 29th International Carbohydrate Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-19th July, 2018.
9. **Keynote speaker, “Advanced
Glycosylation Methods That Allows Easy Access to Complex
Glycoconjugates”, Synthetic Biology International Meeting, Wuhan, China, 21-22 May, 2018.
10. *Keynote speaker,
“Tailor-made Peptidoglycans and Glycoconjugates for Antimicrobial
Research”, 1st National Conference of Signal Communication and
Pathogenesis in Microbes, Guangzhou,
China, 1-4 December,
2017.
11. *Keynote speaker,
“Antimicrobial Peptides, Glycopeptides and Peptidoglycans”, The 3rd
Glycobiology World Congress, London,
UK, 26-28 Jun 2017.
12. *Co-Chair and keynote speaker,
“Synthesis of Antimicrobial Peptides, Glycopeptides and Peptidoglycans”,
International Conference on Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering
(ICCMB4), Singapore, 4-6 January, 2017.
13. *Session chair and Keynote speaker, “Quick Assembly
of Glycosides and Glycoproteins: General Tactics and New Glycosylation
Methods”, The XXVIII
International carbohydrate symposium, New Orleans, USA,
17-22 July, 2016.
14. *Keynote speaker,
“Exploring and Exploiting Carbohydrate-lectin Interactions”, PacifiChem, Honolulu,
Hawaii, USA, 15-20 December, 2015.
15. **Keynote speaker,
“Acceptor-controlled Stereoselective Glycosylation”, The 1st
Symposium of Carbohydrate Synthesis (首届糖合成化学高峰论坛), Nanchang, China, 10-11 April, 2015.
16. *Session chair and Keynote
speaker, “New Glycosylation Methods & New Glycosylated
Nanodevice Interfacing with Living Cells”, Society for Glycobiology (SFG)
& Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research (JSCR) Joint Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 16-19 November,
2014.
17. *Keynote speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, Singapore – South Korea Symposium on Glycomics,
BioProcessing Institute, A*STAR, Singapore, 13 February,
2014.
18. *Keynote speaker,
“Stereoselective Glycosylation and Its Use in the Synthesis of
Carbohydrates and Natural Products”, 26th International
Carbohydrate Symposium, Madrid,
Spain, 22-27 July, 2012.
19. *Keynote speaker,
“Stereoselective Glycosylation and Its Use in the Synthesis of
Carbohydrates and Natural Products”, 27th Chinese Chemical Society
Conference, Xiamen, China, 19-23 June,
2010.
Lectureship Award
Presentations
1.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2012)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing
University, China, 9 September, 2013.
2.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2012)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, School of Pharmacy, Beijing University, China, 11 Sept.,
2013.
3.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2012)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 12 September,
2013.
4.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2011)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, KAIST, Korea, 5
Aug, 2013.
5.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2011)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, POSTECH, Korea,
6 Aug, 2013.
6.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2011)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, Sungkyunkyan University, Suwon, Korea, 8 August, 2013.
7.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2011)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, 14, May, 2013.
8.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2011)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 15 May, 2013.
9.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2011)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 16 May, 2013.
10.
**Award speaker, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2011)
Tour: “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan, 17 May, 2013.
11.
**Award speaker, Asian Core
Program Lectureship Award (2006) Tour: “An Easy Access to Aminoglycosides
via Intramolecular Rh-catalyzed Aziridination
of Glycals”, Keio University, Tokyo,
Japan, 23 June,
2008.
12.
**Award speaker, Asian Core
Program Lectureship Award (2006) Tour: “An Easy Access to Aminoglycosides
via Intramolecular Rh-catalyzed Aziridination
of Glycals”, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 24 June, 2008.
13.
**Award speaker, Asian Core
Program Lectureship Award (2006) Tour: “An Easy Access to Aminoglycosides
via Intramolecular Rh-catalyzed Aziridination
of Glycals”, The University of Tokyo, Japan,
25 June, 2008.
14.
**Award speaker, Asian Core
Program Lectureship Award (2006) Tour: “An Easy Access to Aminoglycosides
via Intramolecular Rh-catalyzed Aziridination
of Glycals”, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan, 27 June,
2008.
Invited
Presentations
1. *Invited
speaker, “Exploring and Exploiting Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions
in Biomedical Context”, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China,
13 January 2022.
2. *Invited
speaker, “Exploring and Exploiting Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions
in Biomedical Context: Nano Approaches”, Northwestern
Polytechnical University, Xi An, China, 28 December 2021.
3. *Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods To Glycobiology”, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France, 16-23 December, 2019.
4. *Invited speaker, “Exploring
and Exploiting Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions in Biomedical Context:
Nano Approaches”, ICMAT 2019, Marina
Bay Sands, Singapore, 23-28 June, 2019.
5. *Invited speaker, “Biohybrid
peptidoglycan oligomers that incorporate into bacterial cell walls”, The
11th International Symposium on Glycosyltransferases, Qingdao, China, 19-23 June, 2018.
6. **Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: The Next Biomolecular Frontiers”,
Northwest University, Xi-An, China, 4 May,
2018.
7. **Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: The Next Biomolecular Frontiers”,
Northwest A&F University, Shanxi,
China, 2 May,
2018.
8. **Invited speaker, “Strategic
Glycosylations”, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, 20 November, 2017.
9. *Invited speaker,
“Glycosylation in Carbohydrate Synthesis and Glycoprotein Synthesis”,
13th Midwest Carbohydrate and Glycobiology Symposium, Madison, WI, USA, 22-23 September, 2017.
10. **Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China,
18 September, 2017.
11. *Invited speaker, the
14th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC) and the
11th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists (ISCIC), Singapore, 8-10 Dec., 2016.
12. *Session chair and invited speaker, “Dual Native
Chemical Ligation: New Methods for Peptide and Glycopeptide Synthesis”,
P2S2 Symposium, Singapore, 8-9
Dec 2016.
13. **Invited speaker, “Glycochemistry and Glycobiology”, Dalian Institute of
Chemistry and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China, 6 April, 2016.
14. **Invited speaker, “Glycochemistry and Glycobiology”, Jiangnan
University, Wuxi, China, 8 April,
2016.
15. **Invited speaker,
“Glycobiology-Oriented Synthesis”, NanjingTech
University, Nanjing, China, 11 April,
2016.
16. **Invited speaker,
“Glycobiology-Oriented Synthesis”, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China, 12 April, 2016.
17. *Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, 6th ICBE-International Conference on Biomolecular
Engineering, Singapore, 5-7 January, 2016.
18. *Co-organiser, The 7th
International Peptide Symposium, at Breakthrough Theatre, Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore,
9-11 December, 2015
19. **Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, School of Pharmacy and School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan,
China, 6 April, 2015.
20. **Invited speaker,
“New Glycosylation Methods and Glycobiology”, School of Pharmacy, Sichuan
University, Chengdu, China, 8 April, 2015.
21. **Invited speaker,
“New Glycosylation Methods and Glycobiology”, School of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi-An, China, 16
April,
2015.
22. *Invited speaker,
“New Glycosylation Methods & New Glycosylated Nanodevice Interfacing
with Living Cells”, 8th Singapore International Chemistry Conference,
U-Town, Singapore, 14-17 December, 2014.
23. *Invited speaker,
“The Intriguing Dual-Directing Effect of 2-Cyanobenzyl Ether for Highly
Stereospecific Glycosylation Reaction”, ICCEOCA-9/NICCEOCA-5, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 1-4 December, 2014.
24. Invited speaker, “Novel
Glycosylated Nanodevices Interfacing with Living Cells”, Singapore Sensor
Centre Inaugural networking workshop, NUS, Singapore, 26 July, 2014.
25. *Invited speaker,
“Stereoselective Glycosylation Methods and Their Application in
Oligosaccharide Synthesis”, the 5th International Conference on the
Development of Biomedical Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,16-18
June, 2014.
26. *Invited speaker,
“Stereoselective Glycosylation and Its Use in the Synthesis of
Carbohydrates and Natural Products”, 2014 Canadian Society for Chemistry
(CSC) annual conference, Vancouver,
Canada, 1-5 June,
2014.
27. *Invited speaker, “Interfacing
Glycosylated Nanodevice with Living Cells: From Biosensing to Drug
Delivery”. the Asia-Canada Glycoscience
Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, 31 May-1 June, 2014
28. **Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wuhan,
China, 21 April, 2014.
29. **Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, Wuhan, China, April 22, 2014.
30. **Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, School of Chemistry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, 23 April, 2014.
31. **Invited speaker, “Glycosciences: From Synthetic Methods to
Glycobiology”, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, 24 April, 2014.
32. Invited speaker,
“New Glycosylation Methods”, 27th International Carbohydrate
Symposium, Bangalore, India, 12-17 January,
2014.
33. **Invited speaker,
“Design and Synthesis of New Therapeutic Agents for Cancers”, Shandong
University, China, 2-5 September, 2013.
34. **Invited speaker, “Carbohydrates
– The Next Biomolecular Frontiers”, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, 2 July, 2013.
35. **Invited speaker,
“New Methods for Carbohydrate Synthesis”, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 19-22 June, 2012.
36. *Invited speaker,
“Stereoselective Glycosylation and Its Use in the Synthesis of
Carbohydrates and Natural Products”, 28th Chinese Chemical Society
Conference, Chengdu, China, 13-16 April,
2012.
37.
*Invited speaker, “New Synthetic Methods in Carbohydrate
Chemistry”, Zhejiang Normal
University, Hangzhou, China, 11 April,
2012.
38. *Invited speaker, “Direct and stereoselective
synthesis of a-Linked 1,3-cis-3-aminodeoxyglycosides”, The 6th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic
Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-6), Hong
Kong, 11-15 December, 2011.
39. **Invited speaker,
“Discovery of Estrogen Receptor Antagonist:
Protein-ligand Binding Study”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 16-18 June, 2010.
40. Invited speaker,
“Design and Synthesis of New Therapeutic Agents for Cancers”, University
of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 11-14 May, 2010.
41.
*Invited speaker, “Large-scale Fabrication of Wavelike
Single-crystal Nanosheets for High-power Lithium Ion
Batteries”, 8th International Symposium on New Materials for
Electrochemical Systems, Shanghai, China, 11-15 July, 2010.
42. Invited speaker, “Design and Synthesis of New Therapeutic Agents for Cancers”, NUS–UoH Chemistry Bilateral Symposium,
NUS, Singapore, 14-15 December, 2009.
43. Invited speaker, “Conversion of
Glucose and Cellulose to DMF, a Potential Additive in Gasoline”, 1st
Annual Workshop on Energy Research Organized by ERI@N and NSWU, NTU, Singapore, 6-7 August,
2009.
44. Invited speaker, “Biomass-derived Gasoline Additive”, 1st Annual
Workshop on Energy Research Organized by ERI@N, NTU, Singapore, 2-4 June, 2009.
45.
*Invited speaker, “Synthesis of Sugars and Other Neuritogenic Molecules”, 2nd UK-Singapore Symposium – Contemporary Organic
Synthesis, Methods and Techniques, Biopolis, Singapore, 15 February, 2008.
46.
Invited speaker, “Sugars in Organic Synthesis and
Chemical Biology”, International
Symposium on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals 2007, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore, 17-21 December, 2007.
47.
*Invited speaker, “Intramolecular Rh-catalyzed Aziridination of Glycals:
A Novel Direct Access to Aminoglycosides”, PERCH-CIC Congress V, Pattaya
city, Thailand, 6-9 May, 2007.
48.
*Invited speaker, “Synthetic Study of Chondoitin
Sulfate Small Molecules That Stimulate Neuronal
Outgrowth”, First International
Conference of Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry, Naha-city, Okinawa, Japan, 16-20 October, 2006.
49.
Invited speaker, “Design and Synthesis of Peptidomimetics
as MC4R Ligands”, Nanyang Technological
University-University of Warwick Symposium, NTU, Singapore, 17 August, 2006.
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