Congratulations to MOBIUS lead researcher, Dr Wenyi Li (School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University), who has been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship!

Future Fellowships provide four-year fellowships to outstanding mid-career researchers to undertake high-quality research in areas of national and international benefit.

Wenyi’s project aims to develop new and efficient methods for the rapid molecular design of membrane-active peptides that can target specific bacterial membranes.

These methods are expected to overcome the challenges of high costs of production, time-consuming synthesis, instability, and determining membrane activity, which have limited their development to date.

This novel approach is expected to create peptides that target specific membranes in various bacteria.

Well done, Wenyi, we are very proud.