Gerry Wright BSc, PhD

Gerry Wright is the Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster. He was Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences (2001-2007). He is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences and Associate member of the Department of Chemistry. He is the founding director of the McMaster Antimicrobial Research Centre.

He received his BSc in Biochemistry (1986) and his PhD in Chemistry (1990) from the University of Waterloo. He followed this up with 2 years of post doctoral research at Harvard Medical School in Boston and joined the Department of Biochemistry at McMaster in 1993. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Antibiotic Biochemistry and has received Canadian Institutes of Health Research Scientist (2000-2005) and Medical Research Council of Canada Scholar (1995-2000), Premiers' Research Excellence (1999) and Polanyi Prize (1993) awards. He is the director of the American Chemical Society Short Course on Antibiotics and Antibacterial Agents.

Dr. Wright is co-founder, with Dr. Eric Brown, of the McMaster High Throughput Screening Facility. He is a member of the editorial boards of the scientific peer-reviewed journals Chemistry and Biology and the Journal of Antibiotics .