Kim Henrick joined the European Bioinformatics Institute in 1996 and became the Macromolecular Structure Database (MSD) group leader in 2001. He received his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1974 from the University of Western Australia. After 10 years in organometallic chemistry at the Polytechnic of North London he moved into protein crystallography at Imperial College followed by a period as secretary to CCP4 at Daresbury Laboratory and post-doctoral positions at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (UK) and The National Institute of Medical Research in London.

The MSD group is part of the wwPDB, processes 3D structures for the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and works on applying relational database technologies creating databases derived from the PDB used to ensure data uniformity across the whole archive together with working towards the integration of various bioinformatics data resources. Search systems are being developed in conjunction with new visualization tools that can present both structure and sequence data in a unified interface.