Huan Wang

Nanjing University

Huan Wang received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park (USA) in 2010, where he works on the chemical modification of nucleic acids. He then moved to the group of Prof. Wilfred van der Donk at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (USA) as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on biosynthesis of peptide natural products. In 2014, he started his independent research at Nanjing University (China), focusing on the chemical synthesis and biosynthesis of functional cyclic peptides. His work has been recognized with the 2019 Thieme Journals Award.