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Dr. Wenhe Zhong has his PhD in The University of Edinburgh in UK, working on enzymology and structure-based drug discovery for trypanosomiasis. Then he moved to NTU Singapore working in Prof. Daniela Rhodes lab as a postdoc and studied the mechanism of telomerase recruitment. Two years later he awarded the SMART Scholar fellowship in Prof. Peter Dedon lab. Now he is leading the antibiotic drug discovery project through collaborations with investigators at NTU and Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) A*STAR.

Dr. Wenhe Zhong’s research at AMR IRG involves the development of new antibacterial agents targeting tRNA epitranscriptome by small molecule high-throughput screening (HTS) and structure-based drug design. Dr. Wenhe Zhong also repurposes FDA-approved drugs and clinical molecules as antibiotics or antibiotic adjuvants for the treatment of drug-resistant bacterial pathogens.