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[2] who studies chemical compounds that can combat antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
[3][4][5] He is also an Associate member of the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Pathology and Molecular Medicine.
He did his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School before joining McMaster University in 1993.
He currently serves as an associate editor of ACS Infectious Diseases, and he is a member of the editorial boards of Chemistry and Biology, The Journal of Antibiotics, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Antimicrobial Therapeutics Reviews.
[7] In 2014, Wright was the senior author on a study in Nature which described the discovery that the previously known Aspergillomarasmine A was a new antibiotic.