Abdullah Al Nahain completed his PhD in polymer chemistry in the lab of Prof Vito Ferro at the University of Queensland in 2019 developing new compounds to mimic biologically active polysaccharides. Following his PhD, Abdullah was employed as a postdoctoral fellow in the Ferro lab and has gained experience in organic and medicinal chemistry, in particular synthetic mono- and oligosaccharides as therapeutics and diagnostic agents targeting a range of diseases.