Gerry Wright
Canadian biochemist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerard D. Wright, PhD, FRSC, is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, and Canada Research Chair in Antibiotic Biochemistry at McMaster University who studies chemical compounds that can combat antibiotic resistance in bacteria. He is also an Associate member of the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Pathology and Molecular Medicine. Wright was Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences from 2001 to 2007. He was the Director of McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research from 2007 to 2022. He is currently the executive director of Canada's Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats. He is also founding director of the McMaster Antimicrobial Research Centre, and co-founder of the McMaster High Throughput Screening Facility.
Gerry Wright's Published Works
Published Works
- Tackling antibiotic resistance (2011) (653)
- COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance: Parallel and Interacting Health Emergencies (2020) (67)
- Outbreak of Vancomycin-Susceptible Enterococcus faecium Containing the Wild-Type vanA Gene (2014) (47)
- Antibiotic resistance–mediated isolation of scaffold-specific natural product producers (2014) (37)
- A macrophage-stimulating compound from a screen of microbial natural products (2014) (24)
- Introduction to the Special Issue: “Natural Product Discovery and Development in the Genomic Era” (2016) (3)
- Outbreak of Vancomycin susceptible Enterococcus faecium (2014) (2)
- Introduction to the special issue: “Natural Product Discovery and Development in the Genomic Era: 2019” (2019) (1)
- Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance (2009) (0)
- TETX2- A TETRACYCLINE INACTIVATING ENZYME TETX2·· A TETRACYCLINE INACTIVATING ENZYME BY (2018) (0)
- NOVEL MECHANISMS OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN SOIL ORGANISMS NOVEL MECHANISMS OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN SOIL ORGANISMS (2018) (0)
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