He has received recognition for research and teaching from the University of Alberta, including the Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1995), the University Cup for Research and Teaching (1998), the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (2003), the Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring (2003) and the Klawe Prize in Teaching Large Classes (2006). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1997) and an Alberta Centennial Medal recipient (2006). He has received the Merck Sharp Dohme Award (1986), the John Labatt Award (1991), the R. U. Lemieux Award (2002) and the Alfred Bader Award (2005) from the Canadian Society for Chemistry for his research. In 2008 he was awarded the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Medal (the society’s highest honour), and in 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). He received the 2010 Leadership in Science Award from the Alberta Science & Technology (ASTech) Foundation. In 2014 he was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He served in numerous scientific organizations, was President of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (2002-2003), a Member of Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (2001-2004) and Chair of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Chemistry. He was Chair of the Chemical Institute of Canada for 2015-2016 and is co-Chair of the American Peptide Symposium (June 2017).