Daniel Bojar recieves the Research Award 2026

Congratulations, what is your reaction?

“Joy, to be recognized by my community ‘at home’. Happy anticipation, to share this with my group and celebrate with them.”

What is so interesting in your field of research?

“One of the most interesting aspects of glycobiology is that glycans are every where and we still don’t really understand them, the often-mentioned ‘dark matter’ of biology. This also allows us to work on very different topics that are still all held together by their relation to glycans.”

The motivation describes you as a creative researcher with a strong ability to renew the methods. Your thoughts?

“Yes, it is very important to me that we always try to find the greatest ‘delta’, or difference, that we can make, that we work on things that other people do not (yet) work on. I also try to give my team a healthy dose of irreverence for the status quo.

How do you hope that your research will impact society in the long run?

“I hope that we will be able to leverage the rich information in glycans for better diagnostics and therapeutics”, says Daniel Bojar.

Motivation:

Daniel Bojar is an exceptionally creative and innovative researcher, whose work is characterized by both outstanding scientific excellence and a strong ability to advance established fields of research. His research on the glycosylation of biological molecules lies at the intersection of molecular biology, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and quantitative methods, where he develops new approaches to understanding and predicting complex biological processes.

What particularly distinguishes Bojar’s research is his ability to combine technical and methodological innovation with deep biological insight. He uses modern computational methods not merely to analyze existing data, but to formulate new biological hypotheses and open up entirely new avenues for experimental research. In this way, his work contributes not only new findings within his own fields of research, but also new ways of conducting cell biology research.

Despite his relative youth, he has in a short period of time established a dynamic and rapidly expanding research group, and forged collaborations with a wide range of research environments.

Daniel Bojar represents a generation of researchers that is actively reshaping the boundaries between experimental and computational research. Through his combination of scientific excellence, originality, and innovative thinking, he is a worthy recipient of the faculty’s research award.