Dr Ethan Goddard-Borger is a professor within the Chemical Biology Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. He obtained his PhD with Distinction in Chemistry as a Hackett Scholar in 2008 from the University of Western Australia. This work led to the development and commercialisation of a popular diazotransfer reagent used extensively across the chemical biology, synthetic chemistry and materials science fields. From 2009-2013, he studied lysosomal storage disorders as a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (Canada). In 2013, Ethan returned to Australia as a VESKI Innovation Fellow to establish his independent research program at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. Here, his team have made significant contributions to understanding the abundance, mechanism and roles of tryptophan C-mannosylation in animals and apicomplexan parasites. Ethan’s recent awards include the ‘2024 Australian Glycoscience Society’s Mid-career Research Award’ and the ‘2024 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award’, a team prize awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Ethan is currently supported by the Rebecca Cooper Fellowship and NHMRC Investigator Fellowship.