Xiaowei Zhuang

Xiaowei Zhuang (Chinese庄小威/庄小威, Pinyin Zhuang Xiǎowēi ) (born 1972 ) is an American biophysicist Chinese origin.

Zhuang graduated in 1987 at the Gifted Young College (少年 班) from the University of Science and Technology of China ( USTC ) in the Suzhou High School. She received the B. S. of Physics at USTC and the Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1997 to 2001 she was Chodorow Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.

Zhuang is a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Physics at Harvard University. She is the director of a research team to develop techniques for high-resolution microscopy to observe the entry mechanism of viruses in cells.

Awards

• 2003: MacArthur Fellowship
• 2003: David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• 2011: Sackler Prize
• 2011: Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2013: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Works ( selection)

• Bo Huang, Wenqin Wang, Mark Bates, Xiaowei Zhuang: Three -Dimensional Super - Resolution Imaging by Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy. In: Science. 319, No. 5864, 2008, pp. 810-813, doi: 10.1126/science.1153529.
• Mark Bates, Bo Huang, Graham T. Dempsey, Xiaowei Zhuang: Multicolor Super - Resolution Imaging with Photo - Switchable Fluorescent Probes. In: Science. 317, No. 5845, 2007, pp. 1749-1753, doi: 10.1126/science.1146598.
• Michael J. Rust, Mark Bates, Xiaowei Zhuang: Sub - diffraction -limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy ( STORM ). In: Nature Methods. 3, No. 10, 2006, pp. 793-796, doi: 10.1038/nmeth929.