Dr. John L. Magnani, Ph.D. has been Chief Scientific Officer of Glycomimetics, Inc. since 2003 and its Senior Vice President since January 9, 2017. Dr. Magnani served as Vice President of Research at Glycomimetics, Inc. since 2003 until January 9, 2017. Dr. Magnani served as Vice President at Glycomimetics, Inc. since August 22, 2015. Dr. Magnani served as Secretary at Glycomimetics, Inc. Dr. Magnani remained at the NIH for ten years, finally serving as a tenured Research Chemist. He left the NIH in 1988 and helped Co-found the U.S. subsidiary of BioCarb and became its Vice President of Research. In 1992, he founded and managed GlycoTech Corp. as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He is the discoverer of Sialyl Lewisa and its functions. He was the first to identify the binding domain to the selectins common to both Sialyl Lewisa and Sialyl Lewisx and used this information to develop potent selectin inhibitors. During his career, he also identified and characterized many carbohydrate tumor antigens and developed fundamental technology for the identification of functional carbohydrate epitopes. Dr. Magnani has been Director at GlycoMimetics, Inc Since 2003. Dr. Magnani received Ph.D. from Princeton University and then joined the Laboratory of Biological Pharmacology of the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIADDK) of the National Institutes of Health.