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Assistant professor Willand-Charnley leads an interdisciplinary research program. The lab’s research spans disciplines that include organic synthesis, chemical biology, glycobiology and cancer immunology. Her research group is currently focusing its efforts to understand how cancer utilize different sugar residues to evade the immune system. The information learned from this research is then utilized to developed therapeutics.

Willand-Charnley completed her undergraduate degree in biology from Creighton University; Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Institutional Research and Academic Career Development à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã scholar at Stanford University under the direction of Carolyn Bertozzi. As an IRACDA scholar, Willand-Charnley was chosen from "a group of highly trained scientists to address the nation's biomedical research needs."

During her graduate work, she placed emphasis on utilizing peroxides to synthesize hard to reach ethers, including the backbone of sugar residues. Her research interests shifted during her postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley and Stanford University toward cancer immunology and glycobiology. Her current areas of research interest are cancer immunology, glycobiology, chemical biology and organic chemistry.