Christopher T. Walsh

Christopher T. Walsh
Nationality	United States
Fields	Biochemistry
Alma mater	Harvard University
Known for	Enzyme kinetics, Antibiotic resistance

Christopher T. Walsh is a Hamilton Kuhn professor of biological chemistry and pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.^[1] His research focuses on enzymes and enzyme inhibition, and most recently he is focused on the problem of antibiotic resistance.^[2] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.^[2]

Early life and education

Walsh earned his A.B. degree in biology from Harvard University in 1965. As an undergraduate, he worked with E. O. Wilson and published a first author paper in the journal Nature, where he and his colleagues described the composition of the fire ant trail substance.^[3] He went on to graduate school at Rockefeller University, where he earned his Ph.D. in life science in 1970.^[2][4]

Career

Walsh completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brandeis University in 1972, and later that year joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a professor of chemistry and biology. In 1987, he joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School, where he remains to this day. Walsh has authored more than 650 publications in scholarly journals and trained several graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.^[2][4]

Notable publications

Books

• Enzymatic Reaction Mechanisms (1978). Published by Freeman Inc (ISBN 978-0716700708).
• Antibiotics: Actions, Origins, Resistance (2003), by Christopher Walsh. Published by ASM Press (ISBN 978-1555812546).
• Post-translation Modification of Proteins: Expanding Nature's Inventory (2006), by C.T. Walsh. Published by Roberts and Company (ISBN 0974707732).^[5]

References

1. ^ "Walsh Laboratory". Harvard Medical School. http://walsh.med.harvard.edu/frame_chris.htm. Retrieved 18 January 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} "Speakers: Christopher T. Walsh, Ph.D.". Duke University Health System. 2006. http://science.medschool.duke.edu/modules/75ann_spks/index.php?id=14. Retrieved 18 January 2010. 
3. ^ Walsh, Christopher T.; J.H. Law, and E.O. Wilson (1965). "Purification of the Fire Ant Trail Substance". Nature (Nature Publishing Group) 207 (4994): 320–321. doi:10.1038/207320b0. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v207/n4994/pdf/207320b0.pdf. Retrieved 18 January 2010. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Beeson, Teresa D.. "The Career of Christopher T. Walsh". http://www.princeton.edu/chemistry/macmillan/group-meetings/TDB-walsh.pdf. Retrieved 18 January 2010. 
5. ^ Van der Donk, Wilfred A. (October 2005). "Book Reviews: The protein modification repertoire". Nature Chemical Biology (Nature Publishing Group) 1 (5): 243. doi:10.1038/nchembio1005-243. http://www.roberts-publishers.com/walsh/Walshreview.pdf. Retrieved 18 January 2010. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Walsh et al publications on Pubmed

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