About Wenning Wang’s work
From July to December 2002, Wenning Wang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. At the time, Wang was based at Fudan University.
Biography
Wenning Wang received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Fudan University in 1990 and his PhD in 1996. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Molecular Sciences in Japan and a visiting scholar at the Department of Biochemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Since 2022, he has been the Deputy Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society. Wang's main research areas are biophysical chemistry, including structural biology and computational biology.
His research interests include the conformational dynamics and biological functions of membrane proteins, the molecular and structural basis of nervous system signaling and cell polarity. Combined with structural biology and computational biology methods, the conformational dynamics of proteins in transporter and other membrane protein systems and the energy information of substrate transport were studied, and the significance of conformational dynamics in the regulation of protein function was revealed, which provided guidance for solving the problems of bacterial resistance to antibiotics and cancer chemotherapy drugs.