GlycoBio Research Center for Chitooligosaccharides, first of its kind in China, was set up at the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) recently. The nameplate of the research center was jointly revealed by Prof. GU Jianyi, Chairman of Saccharide Complexes Committee of Chinese Bio-Chemistry & Molecular Biology Society, and Prof. LIU Zhongmin, Vice-Director of DICP at its opening ceremony.
The research center will be supported technically by the Research Group No.1805 of DICP. This Group is the only research team in this country winning financial supports from the Ministry of Science & Technology for the R&D of chitooligosaccharides during the 9th, 10th and 11th National Five-Year Plan period (1996-2010). As a result of studies for more than 10 years, the DICP scientists have succeeded in the controlling of the polymerization degree of chitooligosaccharides, a key problem in this research area, by means of a proprietary patented technology of coupling enzyme degradation with membrane separation.
