James is a researcher at the University of South Carolina. A classically trained analytical chemist, his undergraduate research was in water disinfection and identification of carcinogenic disinfection byproducts. His graduate research with Dr. John Lavigne is on the use of synthetic lectins to probe for abbherant glycosylation in cancer, with specific focuses on development of liquid biopsies for colorectal and breast cancers, as well as isolation and identification of glycosylated triple-negative breast cancer biomarkers. James has brought his expertese in multidimentional analysis, statistics, and instrumentation to provide real-world utility of these synthetic lectins to aid in cancer detection and treatment outcomes. In the future, he plans to continue work related to multidimentional array-based sensors for early and easy cancer detection, as well as the implications of glycosylation in cancer replication, drug resistance, and metastasis.
CRDWC 2025
Oral Presentation