Xiaowei Zhuang

Xiaowei Zhuang is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the David B. Arnold Professor of Science at Harvard University. She pioneered the development of super-resolution imaging and genome-scale imaging methods. She invented STORM, a super-resolution imaging method, and discovered novel cellular structures using STORM. She invented a single-cell transcriptome and genome imaging method, MERFISH, and made discoveries in the areas ranging from the cellular organization and functions in the brain to the 3D genome organization and gene regulation in cells using MERFISH.

Zhuang is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a foreign associate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the European Molecular Biology Organization. She received honorary doctorate degrees from the Stockholm University, Delft University of Technology, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has received many awards, including Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, Heinrich Wieland Prize, J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine, FNIH Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery, Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics, and MacArthur Fellowship.