Christopher Walsh is a Harvard Medical School professor emeritus who serves as a senior advisor to the ChEM-H Center at Stanford University. He has authored hundreds of papers and books, including the predecessor to this title, Antibiotics : Actions, Origins, Resistance (2003). Dr. Walsh is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society and a co-recipient of the 2010 Welch Prize in Chemistry.
Timothy Wencewicz is a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. After receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Christopher Walsh's laboratory at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wencewicz's research centers on antibiotic drug discovery, natural product biosynthesis, and targeted drug delivery across bacterial membranes.