2025 Contribution to Science Award Recipient
Dr. Gerard Wright
BSc ’86, Biochemistry
PhD ’91, Chemistry
Dr. Gerard Wright holds the Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Infection and Anti-Infective Research and is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Science at McMaster University. He was Chair of the Department from 2001-2007 and was the Founding Director of both the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (2007-2022) and the David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery (2018-2022). Gerard was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012) and received the Killam Prize (Health Sciences; 2024). He is a McMaster Distinguished University Professor, the highest academic honour at the university. His research interests are in the chemical biology of antibiotic resistance and the discovery of new anti-infective strategies.