Corleone Delaveris

Corleone is a graduate student in the lab of Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi in the Department of Chemistry. He studies how the glycocalyx — the various sugars of glycoproteins and other glycoconjugates on the cell surface — participates in disease and how it can be engineered. He combines organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, and immunology to study and manipulate the complex network of glycan-based interactions. Specific projects include studying how influenza viral fusion is affected by bulky glycoproteins and developing glycan-based immunotherapies for cancer.

Prior to Stanford, Corleone attended Boston College where he received his B.S. in Chemistry. He conducted undergraduate research under the advisement of Prof. Marc Snapper studying cyclophane and imidazolium based organocatalysis. Additionally, he participated in the Department of Energy’s Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where he studied types of contaminant sulfur in archaeological artifacts using X-ray spectroscopy.