Dr. James Dennis received his BSc in Mathematics at Concordia University, Montreal, PhD in Biochemistry at Queen’s University Kingston (1978), postdoctoral training at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, and then awarded a Terry Fox fellowship to work with Dr. Harry Schachter at University of Toronto (1980). He started his research group as Assistant Professor at Queens University (1982), and moved to became a founding member of the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (1985) and Professor in Molecular Genetic Department at the University of Toronto. His research on the enzymology, structure and function of protein N-glycosylation has revealed functions in receptor kinase signaling, metabolism, cancer and autoimmune disease. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, held a Canada Research Chair in Glycobiology, inventor on 20 patients, more than 200 publications, and mentored to many talented students.