About Us
GlycoSpot is an industrial biotechnology company specializing in the development, production, and distribution of ready-to-use enzyme activity screening tools.
The development of the chromogenic substrate and the assay technology started as a research project at the University of Copenhagen in 2012.
We aimed at developing a high-throughput assay for initial enzyme screenings. In December 2014 we founded GlycoSpot and took the technology to a real start-up environment. Since then we have been continuously growing.
Our Team
M.B.A. Thomas Lacentra
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Julia Schückel
Senior Science Manager
Dr. Raimon Parés Viader
Senior Scientist
Dr. Troels Balmer Christensen
Technical Director
M.Sc. Aušra Marčiuškaitė
Commercial Project Manager
Charlotte Bauer Munch-Andersen
Junior Scientist
Robert Bayer
Web Developer
B.Sc. Anna Caroline Nørregaard
Junior Scientist
Helene Fog Froriep Halberg
Junior Scientist
Andrea Pražienková
Graphic Designer
Maryana Adnan Dhaka
Laboratory Technician Trainee
Lennart Hansen
Junior Scientist
Maria Gimenez Ribera
Intern
Executive Board
Strategic management is ensured by a board of directors. Ours consists of experts with high-level competencies within scientific research, commercial experience, and extensive knowledge within establishment and scaling of start-ups.
Ole Kring
Co-founder, Chairman of the Board, CEO of Zoetis Denmark
Mads Hartvig Clausen
Board member, co-inventor, co-founder, Professor at DTU.
Anders H. Jensen
Investment Manager, CAPNOVA representative
Frank Hansen
Board member, Attorney (L)
Advisory Board
William G.T. Willats
Co-inventor and co-founder.
W. Willats is an expert in plant cell wall glycobiology incl. plant polysaccharides, glycosyl hydrolase enzymes, biomass, and functional foods. He has published numerous highly cited papers in this area. He is also a pioneer in the field of carbohydrate microarrays and was one of the first to develop this technology in 2002.