Biggar was the 2016 recipient of the John Charles Polanyi Prize for his outstanding work in early career research.
The well-known Canadian biochemist Kenneth B. Storey was his thesis advisor during his graduate studies at Carleton University.
After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Western Ontario Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Biggar came back to his alma mater to become an assistant professor of Biochemistry as of 2016.
His main areas of research interest are Oxidative Cell Stress,[4] Functional Proteomics,[5] Bioinformatics,[6] and Molecular Pharmacology.
Biggar was the 2016 recipient of the John Charles Polanyi Prize for outstanding work in early career research in peptide therapeutics.