William Wuest, PhD

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Dr. Wuest is a Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator and Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the Emory College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Emory Department of Chemistry Graduate Program. He research focuses on leveraging natural product total synthesis to better understand antibiotic mechanisms of action. His group utilizes synthetic chemistry, microbiology, genetics, and proteomic methods to develop novel compounds to combat bacteria. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry/Business at the University of Notre Dame, his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, under the advisement of Prof. Amos B. Smith, III and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Prof. Christopher T. Walsh at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Wuest is the recipient of a number of awards recognizing his research & scholarship including an NSF CAREER Award, the 2017 ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award, the 2020 David W. Robertson Award from the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry, the New Investigator Award from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation, the Thieme Journal of Chemistry Award, the Young Investigator Award from the Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State University, and the Italia-Eire Foundation Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award from the College of Science and Technology at Temple University. He is also a 2019 AAAS Leshner Fellow and an RCSA Scialog Fellow. His research is currently supported by an NIH R35 MIRA grant and NSF funding.