Contact
Parastoo Azadi
Associate Director of CCRC-Service & Training
Executive Technical Director
Analytical Services and Training AST
University of Georgia
706-583-0629
azadi@uga.edu
Dr. Parastoo Azadi earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of North London, UK, in 1987 and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, in 1991. Her doctoral research, supervised by Profs. A. Dell and H.R. Morris, focused on the structural characterization of carbohydrates and glycoproteins using mass spectrometry.
Since 2001, Dr. Parastoo Azadi has been in charge of the Service, Collaboration and Training at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. She oversees and manages all analytical services, collaborations and training conducted at the CCRC, which are in part supported by three federal resource centers of excellence that CCRC has been awarded: The National Institutes of Health “National Glycoscience Resource”- CCRC Service and Training (NIH grant R24GM137782), Department of Energy-funded Center for Plant and Microbial Complex Carbohydrates (DE-SC0015662),and GlycoMIP, a National Science Foundation Materials Innovation Platform (DMR-1933525). The analytical service program offers two main areas of service: standard analyses and contract analyses. The samples submitted for these types of analyses come from academic, government, non-profit organizations and private companies, across the United States and internationally
Dr. Azadi’s laboratory conducts research on the structural characterization of plant, bacterial, and animal polysaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids using mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques. The lab excels in developing new analytical techniques and refining existing methods to meet the specific needs of our users and also for our in-house research, advancing the field and providing customized solutions to complex research challenges. She also collaborates closely with researchers from the industry on developing carbohydrate-based drugs, particularly in the context of outsourcing prior to Phase I and Phase II clinical trials.
CCRC also offers several training courses annually on the structural characterization of glycans in glycoproteins, glycolipids, polysaccharides, and GAGs, as well as mass spectrometry and software analysis. These courses provide hands-on experience and faculty-led lectures for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and visiting scientists from around the world.
Research Interests: Structural analysis of oligosaccharides, glycoproteins, polysaccharides and glycolipids by mass spectrometry.