Todd Lowary received his B.A in chemistry from the University of Montana and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Alberta. Postdoctoral appointments were at the University of Alberta and Carlsberg Laboratory. In 1996, he started a position in the Department of Chemistry at the Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor and in 2002 was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. He returned to the University of Alberta in 2003, retiring in 2021 as the R. U. Lemieux Professor of Carbohydrate Chemistry. In 2019 he became a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Biological Chemistry at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, a position he continues to hold. Since 2019 he has served as the Director of the Institute. Research interests are in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry, in particular as these fields relate to microbial glycans. Areas of particular focus are glycans from mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis, gram-negative bacteria lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic probes, vaccine antigens from Streptococcus suis, N-glycans from chlorella viruses and mycobacteriophage–glycan interactions. He is Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Canada