It is with great pleasure that we announce Professor Christopher Walsh, from Harvard Medical School, in the US, as the winner of the NPR Lecture Award for 2010.
Professor Walsh was selected in recognition of his work on natural product biosynthesis, in particular his work on investigating the structure and function of enzymes.
‘I am honoured to be selected for the 2010 NPR Lecture Prize’, says Professor Walsh. ‘I have come to natural products research from a background in chemical enzymology, focusing on the protein catalysts that carry out novel chemical transformations in the assembly of natural product scaffolds. I have found NPR to be the central resource to facilitate my education in natural products. NPR is the first place that my group and I turn to for the scholarly breadth and depth on major natural product classes and for the highlights that put the current literature into context’
Professor Walsh will deliver his lecture, entitled ‘A post-translational approach to natural product biosynthesis’, during the ‘Symposium on Biosynthesis of Natural Products’ at Pacifichem 2010, in Honolulu, from 15th-20th December.
You can read some of his latest NPR articles:
Structural insights into nonribosomal peptide enzymatic assembly lines
Alexander Koglin, Christopher T. Walsh, Nat. Prod. Rep., 2009, (8),987-1000
DOI: 10.1039/b904543kTotal biosynthesis: in vitro reconstitution of polyketide and nonribosomal peptide pathways
Elizabeth S. Sattely, Michael A. Fischbach, Christopher T. Walsh, Nat. Prod. Rep., 2008, (4),757-793
DOI: 10.1039/b801747fBiological formation of pyrroles: Nature’s logic and enzymatic machinery
Christopher T. Walsh, Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, Annaleise R. Howard-Jones, Nat. Prod. Rep., 2006, (4),517-531
DOI: 10.1039/b605245m
NPR sponsors a lecture each year at an international meeting. The recipient will have made a significant research contribution to natural products chemistry in its broadest sense, and will have published in or have had some affiliation to the journal. The award is open to anyone fitting these criteria.
From Natural Product Reports’ Editorial Office we would like to congratulate Christopher for this more than well deserved recognition.
