Dr The Huong Chau
Conjoint Lecturer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Glycobiology and Analytical Biochemistry
Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine
Dr The Huong (Kevin) Chau is a Conjoint Lecturer at the School of Clinical Medicine - UNSW Sydney, a research scientist with the Immunology Department at NSW Health Pathology, and an Affiliate Researcher at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research. Kevin holds a PhD from Macquarie University, where his research focused on glycobiology, glycomics and glycoproteomics, with particular interests in the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches to investigate protein glycosylation in health and disease.
Kevin's current research focuses on development and translation of high-resolution mass spectrometry methods for clinical immunology and diagnostic applications. With the aim to bridge analytical mass spectrometry and laboratory medicine, his work spans across clinical proteomics, middle-down and bottom-up proteomics analysis, immunoglobulin and antibody characterisation, and development of mass spectrometry-based approaches for haematological and immunological disorders.
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2025 - Geoff Humphreys Memorial PhD Prize for Academic Excellence in Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
2025 - Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Postgraduate Research and Thesis Excellence, Macquarie University
2024 - Runner-up, Best Student Oral Presentation, 5th Australasian Glycoscience Symposium
2024 - Travel Award, 31st International Carbohydrate Symposium
2023 - Biomolecular Discovery Research Centre Postgraduate Prize for the best internationally peer-reviewed paper by a postgraduate student as first author accepted for publication, Macquarie University
2023 - Travel Award, 26th International Glycoconjugate Symposium
2022 - University Medal for Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University
2021 - Royal Society of New South Wales Scholarship
2020 - Australian Amgen Scholars Program, University of Melbourne
Research interests
- Clinical and translational mass spectrometry
- Glycomics and glycoproteomics
- Clinical proteomics and protein characterisation
- Immunoglobulin and antibody characterisation
- Middle-down and targeted mass spectrometry
- Biomarker discovery and precision diagnostics
- Computational approaches for mass spectrometry and glycoproteomics
Publications
- Yang, R. B., Tu, C. F., Chen, Y. T., Chau, T. H., Lin, S. W., Tsai, C. D., Li, F. A., Andersen, M., & Lin, Y. C. (2026). FUT8-dependent core fucosylation: Essential for platelet function and a target in thrombosis. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 46(7), e324757.
- Nutsford, A., Chau, T. H., Wang, C., Sargent, A., Cullen, C., Reilly, T., Thaysen-Andersen, M., Brooks, A. E. S., & Taylor, J. A. (2026). A novel glycoform of the rotavirus outer capsid protein VP7 is secreted from polarized cells and activates innate immune cells. Journal of Virology, e01898-25. Editor’s Pick.
- Chau, T. H.*, Chatterjee, S.*, Caulfield, L., Chernykh, A., Traini, M., Fehring, J., Hwang, H., Kawahara, R., Meyer, E. J., Torpy, D. J., & Thaysen-Andersen, M. (2025). Serum AGP-1-Lex glycoforms report on survivorship of patients with septic shock upon admission to intensive care unit. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 25(1), 101470.*Contributed equally
- Kawahara, R., Kautto, L., Bansal, N., Dipta, P., Chau, T. H., Liquet-Weiland, B., Ahn, S. B., & Thaysen-Andersen, M. (2025). HEXB drives raised paucimannosylation in colorectal cancer and stratifies patient risk. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 100927.
- Chau, T. H., Bansal, N., Chernykh, A., Kawahara, R., & Thaysen-Andersen, M. (2025). Glycomics-Guided Glycoproteomics Facilitates Comprehensive Profiling of the Glycoproteome in Complex Tumor Microenvironments. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), 216, e67405.
- Torpy, H.*, Chau, T. H.*, Chatterjee, S., Chernykh, A., Torpy, D. J., Meyer, E. J., & Thaysen-Andersen, M. (2025). Impact of different pathogen classes on the serum N-glycome in septic shock. BBA advances, 7, 100138. *Contributed equally
- Houlahan, C. B., Kong, Y., Johnston, B., Cielesh, M., Chau, T. H., Fenwick, J., Coleman, P. R., Hao, H., Haltiwanger, R. S., Thaysen-Andersen, M., Passam, F. H., & Larance, M. (2024). Analysis of the Healthy Platelet Proteome Identifies a New Form of Domain-Specific O-Fucosylation. Molecular & cellular proteomics: MCP, 23(2), 100717.
- Chau, T. H., Chernykh, A., Ugonotti, J., Parker, B. L., Kawahara, R., & Thaysen-Andersen, M. (2023). Glycomics-Assisted Glycoproteomics Enables Deep and Unbiased N-Glycoproteome Profiling of Complex Biological Specimens. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2628, 235–263.
- Chau, T. H., Chernykh, A., Kawahara, R., & Thaysen-Andersen, M. (2023). Critical considerations in N-glycoproteomics. Current opinion in chemical biology, 73, 102272.