 Cummings is also co-Director of the Human Glycome Project, a world-wide effort to identify and functionally characterize the components of the human glycome.Cummings has also held numerous leadership positions in academia and has been a leader in industry and government involvement in scientific reviews and decision making.Cummings is a co-Editor of the 1st Edition of Essentials of Glycobiology (1999), the 2nd Edition (2009) of "Essentials of Glycobiology", and now 3rd Edition (2017) of "Essentials of Glycobiology", the first textbook in the field of glycobiology.