Wang Pingyuan is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Ocean University of China, joining in 2021 as a Distinguished Professor of the First Level of Young Talents Program. He earned his doctoral degree in 2016 via the joint training program of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Central China Normal University. From 2016 to 2021, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas Medical Branch (USA). His main research focuses on the discovery and mechanism of molecular targeted drug leads from marine natural products, including their synthesis, structural optimization, pharmacological activity, and mechanism study. He presides over key projects such as the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the start-up fund for the First Level of "Young Talents Project" of Ocean University of China. He has published over 40 SCI papers in top field journals (e.g., EMBO Molecular Medicine, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry), applied for more than 10 international and domestic invention patents (5 authorized), and received honors including Young Expert of Taishan Scholars (Shandong Province).