DaSilva Award 2025 – About the Winner (Dr. Tianmin Wang)
Tianmin Wang
Affiliation: ShanghaiTech University, P.R.China
Research title for the award:
Development of novel antimicrobial peptides via the combination of high-throughput activity profiling and artificial intelligence
Dr. Tianmin Wang is an assistant professor at the School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University. He received his bachelor degree in Chemistry at Peking University (2012), master in Bioinformatics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015), and Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from Tsinghua University (2018). Dr. Wang’s research focuses on developing high-throughput profiling biotechnologies, which enables revealing the mechanism modulating the emergent antibiotic tolerance in bacteria, and accelerating the discovery of novel antimicrobials. Dr. Wang has published research articles in journals such as Nature Chemical Biology (2020, 2023), Nature Communications (2018, 2024), and Nucleic Acids Research (2018, 2021). He has been selected for the National Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program of China.
[Message as a prize winner]
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the Society for Biotechnology, Japan for selecting me as the winner of the DaSilva Award 2025. It is a great honor to receive this prestigious award and be part of the biotechnology community in Asia. I would like to express my thanks to my mentor and nominator, Prof. Chong Zhang; my Ph.D. supervisor, Prof. Xin-Hui Xing; as well as other mentors, collaborators and students. I look forward to being involved in the excellent young researchers’ network across Asia and work together to advance research and education in biotechnology.
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