Martin Walsh
Diamond Light Source
Deputy Director of Life Sciences
Martin Walsh is Deputy Director of Life Sciences and Science Group Leader for Biological Cryo-Imaging at Diamond Light Source as well as a visiting research fellow at the Division of Structural Biology within the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford.
Our research is using a targeted structural and functional approach using primarily cryoEM and macromolecular crystallography to understanding at the molecular level bacterial pathogenesis. We have focused our efforts in the main part on bacterial respiratory pathogens that continue to pose a significant health risk to the very young and elderly.
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, our activities have been partially diverted to applying a structure based drug discovery approach to the two cysteine proteases of SARS-CoV-2. We've taken a completely open-access approach to this work and a full summary along with experimental data can be found here.
http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Beamlines/Mx/Research/Walsh-group/Staff/Martin-Walsh.html