Luke Lairson received a B.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Guelph, prior to completing a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of British Columbia with Stephen G. Withers. He was a visiting fellow of the Royal Society at the University of Oxford and completed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Peter G. Schultz at TSRI. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute and a principle investigator at the California Institute for Biomedical Research (CalIBR).