Conor Walsh

About

Conor Walsh is the Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, affiliated with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is also an Associate Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. His primary teaching area includes Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering. Walsh's research focuses on bioinspired robotics and computing, biomechanics and motor control, and the development of wearable devices and robotic systems that enhance human capabilities. His work involves applying principles from applied mathematics, data science, and artificial intelligence to model physical and biological phenomena, with particular emphasis on health, medicine, and human-computer interaction. Through his lab, Walsh advances innovations in materials, robotics, and control systems aimed at improving human health and performance.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Biochemistry
• Computer Science
• Biology
• Biochemical engineering
• Engineering
• Organic chemistry
• Polymer science
• Data science
• Bioinformatics

Selected publications

• Prospects for Antibacterial Discovery and Development

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021 · 90 citations

  The rising prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacteria is an urgent health crisis that can only be countered through renewed investment in the discovery and development of antibiotics. There is no panacea for the antibacterial resistance crisis; instead, a multifaceted approach is called for. In this Perspective we make the case that, in the face of evolving clinical needs and enabling technologies, numerous validated antibacterial targets and associated lead molecules deserve a second look. At t…

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• Natural Product Biosynthesis

  2022-12-14 · 41 citations

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  Authored by leading experts in the enzymology of natural product biosynthesis, this completely revised and updated edition provides a description of the types of natural products, the biosynthetic pathways that enable the production of these molecules, and an update on the discovery of novel products in the post-genomic era. Although some 500 000 – 600 000 natural products have been isolated and characterized over the past two centuries, there may be a 10-fold greater inventory awaiting immediat…

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• Tailoring enzyme strategies and functional groups in biosynthetic pathways

  Natural Product Reports · 2022-10-21 · 40 citations

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  Secondary metabolites are assembled by drawing off and committing some of the flux of primary metabolic building blocks to sets of enzymes that tailor the maturing scaffold.

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• The Chemical Biology of Phosphorus

  The Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks · 2020 · 26 citations

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  Alexander Todd, the 1957 Nobel laureate in chemistry is credited with the statement: “where there is life, there is phosphorus”. Phosphorus chemical biology underlies most of life’s reactions and processes, from the covalent bonds that hold RNA and DNA together, to the making and spending 75 kg of ATP every day, required to run almost all metabolic and mechanical events in cells. Authored by a renowned biochemist, The Chemical Biology of Phosphorus provides an in-depth, unifying chemical approac…

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• The Chemical Biology of Sulfur

  The Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks · 2020 · 25 citations

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  This volume aims to provide an in-depth view of the complete biochemistry of sulfur with an emphasis on aspects not covered elsewhere. Given its role in the formation of proteins and presence in the amino acids methionine and cysteine, sulfur is essential to life. Current literature on the biochemistry of sulfur is vast and widely dispersed, as such this volume is intended as a single-source for everything concerning sulfur biochemistry from metabolic roles of inorganic sulfur, to thiol and thio…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant P01GM047467

  NIH · $55.8M · 2019

• Medical Scientist Training Program

  NIH · $64.1M · 1979–2022

• NIH Grant R01GM021643

  NIH · $2.3M · 1993

Frequent coauthors

• Neil L. Kelleher

  Northwestern University

  110 shared

• Chaitan Khosla

  Stanford University

  62 shared

• Michael A. Fischbach

  Stanford University

  61 shared

• Daniel Kahne

  Harvard University

  55 shared

• J. Martin Bollinger

  Pennsylvania State University

  52 shared

• Mohamad Mouchli

  Cleveland Clinic

  44 shared

• Bruce Furie

  41 shared

• Shravani Reddy

  40 shared

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