Dr. Rachel Hevey

Jin, C., Lundstrøm, J., Cori, C. R., Guu, S.-Y., Bennett, A. R., Dannborg, M., Bengtsson-Palme, J., Hevey, R., Khoo, K.-H., & Bojar, D. (2025). Seal milk oligosaccharides rival human milk complexity and exhibit functional dynamics during lactation [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.20.644374

Fadda, Elisa, Hevey, Rachel, Schumann, Benjamin, & Westerlind, Ulrika. (2025). Chemical glycobiology. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 21, 8–9. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.21.2

Cori, Carmen R., & Hevey, Rachel. (2024). Total Synthesis of Core 3 & Core 4-Type Mucin Glycan Derivatives [Journal-article]. Helvetica Chimica Acta, 107(7), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202400026

Rabbani, S., Hevey, R., Wichers, T., Smiesko, M., Jakob, R. P., Maier, T., & Ricklin, D. (2023). 108 Design and in vitro Evaluation of Collectin-11 Antagonists for the Treatment of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injuries [Journal-article]. Immunobiology, 228(5), 152559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imbio.2023.152559

Minzer, Giulietta, & Hevey, Rachel. (2023). Synthesis of Mucin O-Glycans Associated with Attenuation of Pathogen Virulence. ChemistryOpen, 12(5), e202200134. https://doi.org/10.1002/open.202200134

Wang, Benjamin X., Takagi, Julie, McShane, Abigail, Park, Jin Hwan, Aoki, Kazuhiro, Griffin, Catherine, Teschler, Jennifer, Kitts, Giordan, Minzer, Giulietta, Tiemeyer, Michael, Hevey, Rachel, Yildiz, Fitnat, & Ribbeck, Katharina. (2023). Host-derived O-glycans inhibit toxigenic conversion by a virulence-encoding phage in Vibrio cholerae. EMBO Journal, 42(3), e111562. https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.2022111562

Dubbu, Sateesh, Santhi, Jampani, & Hevey, Rachel. (2023). Carbohydrate-Derived Dienes as Building Blocks for Pharmaceutically Relevant Molecules. Helvetica Chimica Acta, 106(1), e202200135. https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202200135

Takagi, Julie, Aoki, Kazuhiro, Turner, Bradley S, Lamont, Sabrina, Lehoux, Sylvain, Kavanaugh, Nicole, Gulati, Megha, Valle Arevalo, Ashley, Lawrence, Travis J, Kim, Colin Y, Bakshi, Bhavya, Ishihara, Mayumi, Nobile, Clarissa J, Cummings, Richard D, Wozniak, Daniel J, Tiemeyer, Michael, Hevey, Rachel*, & Ribbeck, Katharina*. (2022). Mucin O-glycans are natural inhibitors of Candida albicans pathogenicity. Nature Chemical Biology, 18(7), 762–773. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-022-01035-1

Carere-Sigl, Anja, Nowakowska, Justyna, Hevey, Rachel, Khanna, Nina, & Ernst, Beat. (2022). FimH antagonists prevent biofilm formation on catheter surfaces. Carbohydrate Chemistry, 45, 519–536. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781839164538-00519

Hevey, Rachel, Pouw, Richard B, Harris, Claire, & Ricklin, Daniel. (2021). Sweet turning bitter: Carbohydrate sensing of complement in host defence and disease. British Journal of Pharmacology, 178(14), 2802–2822. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.15307

Dopler, Arthur, Stibitzky, Selina, Hevey, Rachel, Mannes, Marco, Guariento, Mara, Höchsmann, Britta, Schrezenmeier, Hubert, Ricklin, Daniel, & Schmidt, Christoph Q. (2021). Deregulation of Factor H by Factor H-Related Protein 1 Depends on Sialylation of Host Surfaces. Frontiers in Immunology, 12, 615748. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.615748

Hevey, Rachel. (2021). The role of fluorine in glycomimetic drug design. Chemistry - A European Journal, 27(7), 2240–2253. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202003135

Reiter, Maud, Hevey, Rachel, Buller, Rebecca, & Shybeka, Inga. (2021). A Perspective on Chemistry and Society: Swiss Women in Chemistry - Two Years Later ... Chimia, 75(12), 1088–1090. https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2021.1088

Hevey, Rachel. (2020). Sugar-coating the search for new therapeutics. medium.com. https://medium.com/sci-five-university-of-basel/sugar-coating-the-search-for-new-therapeutics-57effc2ae523

Frei, Priska, Hevey, Rachel, & Ernst, Beat. (2019). Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry: A New Methodology Comes of Age. Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany), 25(1), 60–73. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201803365

Frei, Priska, Silbermann, Marleen, Mühlethaler, Tobias, Jiang, Xiaohua, Schwardt, Oliver, Hevey, Rachel, & Ernst, Beat. (2019). Comparison of Affinity Ranking by Target-directed Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry and Surface Plasmon Resonance. Arkivoc, part iv, 143–167. https://doi.org/10.24820/ark.5550190.p010.913

Hevey, Rachel. (2019). Strategies for the Development of Glycomimetic Drug Candidates. Pharmaceuticals, 12(2), 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph12020055

Hevey, Rachel. (2019). Bioisosteres of Carbohydrate Functional Groups in Glycomimetic Design. Biomimetics, 4(3), 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics4030053

Hevey, Rachel, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2017). Studies on the 6-homologation of β-D-idopyranosides. Carbohydrate Research, 445, 65–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2017.04.007

Sager, Christoph P., Eriş, Deniz, Smieško, Martin, Hevey, Rachel, & Ernst, Beat. (2017). What contributes to an effective mannose recognition domain? Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 13, 2584–2595. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.13.255

Zhang, Pengfei, Hevey, Rachel, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2017). Total Synthesis of β-d-ido-Heptopyranosides Related to Capsular Polysaccharides of Campylobacter jejuni HS:4. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 82(18), 9662–9674. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.7b01752

Hevey, Rachel, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2014). Conjugation Strategies Used for the Preparation of Carbohydrate-Conjugate Vaccines. In Narain, Ravin (Ed.), Chemistry of Bioconjugates: Synthesis, Characterization, and Biomedical Applications (Vol. 9781118359143, pp. 387–413). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118775882.ch16

Hevey, Rachel, Chen, Xining, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2013). Role of the 4,6-O-acetal in the regio- and stereoselective conversion of 2,3-di-O-sulfonyl-β-D-galactopyranosides to D-idopyranosides. Carbohydrate Research, 376, 37–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2013.05.001

Hevey, Rachel, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2013). Recent advances toward the development of inhibitors to attenuate tumor metastasis via the interruption of lectin-ligand interactions. Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, 69, 125–207. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-408093-5.00005-8

Hevey, Rachel, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2013). Evidence of cation-coordination involvement in directing the regioselective di-inversion reaction of vicinal di-sulfonate esters. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 11(11), 95–1887. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ob27336a

Hevey, Rachel, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2012). Recent advances in developing synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccines for cancer immunotherapies. Future Medicinal Chemistry, 4(4), 84–545. https://doi.org/10.4155/fmc.11.193

Hevey, Rachel, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2012). Global financial challenge: opportunities for strengthening R&D research in targeted drug delivery. Future Medicinal Chemistry, 4(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.4155/fmc.11.168

Hevey, Rachel, Morland, Alizée, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2012). A scalable approach to obtaining orthogonally protected β-D-idopyranosides. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 77(16), 6760–6772. https://doi.org/10.1021/jo300764k

Feng, Jianhao, Hevey, Rachel, & Ling, Chang-Chun. (2011). Synthesis of a Forssman antigen derivative for use in a conjugate vaccine. Carbohydrate Research, 346(17), 62–2650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2011.09.015