Matthew Macauley is an associate professor within the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta and currently holds the R.U. Lemieux Chair of Carbohydrate Chemistry and a Canada Research Chair in Chemical Glycoimmunology. He obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Simon Fraser University and performed postdoctoral research as an HFSP fellow at the Scripps Research Institute. His lab studies immunomodulatory carbohydrate-binding receptors, called Siglecs, and their roles in health and