Guangshun Wang, PhD, is a professor in the UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. His research focuses on innate immune antimicrobial peptides and their potential application as novel antimicrobials to combat drug-resistant pathogens.
To promote research and education, his lab constructed and has been updating and expanding the Antimicrobial Peptide Database for two decades. This unique and comprehensive tool laid the foundation for his lab to decipher nature’s design principles of antimicrobial peptides and develop the database filtering technology for designing potent, selective and stable peptides with demonstrated efficacy in animal models.