Horace Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry (2017) NIH Director New Innovator Award (2008) Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2008) NSF CAREER Award (2007) Beckman Young Investigator (2004) Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow (2000) ACS Medicinal Chemistry Predoctoral Fellow (1998) Lara K. Mahal is an American chemist who is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Glycomics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

[9] Work in her laboratory focuses on understanding the role of carbohydrates in human health using systems- and chemical biology-based approaches[10] Mahal received her B.A.

As an undergraduate, she worked on organic free radical chemistry in the laboratory of Professor Rebecca Braslau.

For this landmark work, Professor Mahal was awarded and American Chemical Society Medicinal Chemistry Pre-doctoral Fellowship.

In 2003, Mahal joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.