ABOUT THE LECTURER

Gerry Wright is the Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research and Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University. Professor Wright received his BSc in Biochemistry (1986) and his PhD in Chemistry (1990) from the University of Waterloo working in the area of antifungal drugs. He followed this up with 2 years of postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School in Boston where he worked on the molecular mechanism of resistance to the antibiotic vancomycin in enterococci. He joined the Department of Biochemistry at McMaster in 1993. He holds the Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Infection and Anti-Infective Research and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Antibiotic Biochemistry. Wright’s laboratory conducts research on the Chemical Biology of antibiotic resistance, on the discovery of new antibiotics and the mechanisms of their biosynthesis, and on the discovery and characterization of new antimicrobial targets.

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