Professor Xiaowei Zhuang

Xiaowei Zhuang is the David B. Arnold Professor of Science at Harvard University and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her lab develops advanced imaging technologies, in particular single-molecule and super-resolution imaging methods, and applies these methods to biological studies.

As a member of the CRUK Grand Challenge Team, she will use MERFISH, a single-cell transcriptome imaging method developed in her lab, to help produce the three-dimensional cell atlas of breast tumors and their host environments. Zhuang is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the EMBO, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society.