Affiliation: The National Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Drugs and the Technologies, Institute of Translational Medicine, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330088, P. R. China

Dr. Zhiwei Shen, a Research Associate at Nanchang University's Institute of Translational Medicine, specializes in peptide self-assembled biofunctionalized materials and in vitro diagnostic method development. His research focuses on utilizing self-assembled peptides combined with biofunctionalized peptides for various biomaterial applications. These include the development of peptide bacteriostatic drugs that target binding to bacterial membrane surfaces to induce self-assembly of conjugated phospholipid molecules, thereby inhibiting the fluidity of phospholipid membranes and rupturing the membranes; the development of cellular three-dimensional cultured peptide hydrogel materials with free radical scavenging ability, which form solution after free radical scavenging; and the development of peptide hydrogel materials based on the combination of self-assembled peptides with affinity properties to design and synthesize supramolecular peptides with high affinity separation ability.