Christopher T. Walsh

Christopher Thomas Walsh ( born February 16, 1944 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American biochemist.

Walsh studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1965), where he worked with Edward O. Wilson, and at the Rockefeller University, where he worked in Biology ( Life Sciences) was awarded his doctorate in 1970. As a post - graduate student, he was in 1972 at Brandeis University. From 1972 he was assistant professor and then professor of chemistry and biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1987 he was Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. 1987 to 1995 he was standing there in front of the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. 1992 to 1995 he was president of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Walsh dealt with enzymes and enzyme inhibition and antibiotic resistance. 1975 to 1977 he was a Sloan Fellow. In 1979 he received the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry. In 2010 he received the Welch Award in Chemistry ( for pioneering work in biological chemistry) and 2014, the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1989) and the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Writings

• Enzymatic Reaction Mechanisms. Freeman, 1978
• Antibiotics: Actions, Origins, Resistance. ASM Press, 2003
• Post -translational Modification of Proteins: Expanding Nature's Inventory. Roberts and Company, 2006