Christopher T. Walsh (February 16, 1944 – January 10, 2023) was a Hamilton Kuhn professor of biological chemistry and pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.
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.
[2][4][5] Walsh completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Robert Abeles 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 to serve as the chair of the newly created Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology.
[5] Walsh authored more than 650 publications in scholarly journals and trained several graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.