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Xiaowei Zhuang was among the Harvard faculty members elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Professior Zhuang has led advances in optical microscopy that shed new light on life itself. Read more >>
Xiaowei Zhuang and Catherine Dulac are among a group of researchers awarded $14.3 million by NIH to support advanced investigations into how DNA organizes inside cell nuclei and functions in space and time. The two five-year grants were awarded to continue the group's work as a 4D Nucelome Research Hub and Center.Read more >>
Catherine Dulac, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences and Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been awarded a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for her pioneering work identifying the neural circuitry that regulates parenting behavior in both males and females.. Read more >>
Xiaowei Zhuang, Bogdan Bintu, and coworkers at Harvard University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have developed a fluorescence imaging method that allows them to visualize the positions of more than 1,000 loci across the human genome.Read more >>
In a study published in Nature, Harvard Medical School neuroscientists, including Bernardo L. Sabatini, report the discovery of a control mechanism in the brains of mice that ensures adequate blood flow to areas of heightened neural activity in a rapid and precise manner. Read more >>
Nine prizes totaling $600,000 are being awarded to immigrant scientists and writers, including Harvard's Xiaowei Zhuang, recipient of the 2020 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science for her outstanding career contributions to biomedical science and global scientific research. Read more >>
ARCH Venture Partners and Northpond Ventures are injecting $14 million into a Harvard team promising to visualize activity on a “subcellular level” — down to every RNA. Xiaowei Zhuang and David Walt are two of the prominent scientists behind Vizgen. Read more >>
Center Faculty Affiliate Member, Dr. Venkatesh Murthy, will speak at what aims to be "the greatest science show in India" bringing together the world's best scientists, thinkers and inventors for an immersive engagement with society.Read more >>
To inspire collaboration and advance the development and application of live cell chromatin imaging technologies Dr. Andrew Seeber, John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow in Imaging, launched the monthly Boston Chromatin Club and Blog. Read more >>
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will honor 18 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, and medical sciences. Professor Xiaowei Zhuang will receive the award for her pioneering contributions to super-resolution and genomic-scale imaging methods. Read more >>
Adam Cohen, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics, is the lead author of a new study that challenges conventional theories about the fluid nature of cell membranes and how they react to tension. Read more >>
For decades, scientists have viewed the brain as a veritable black box - and now Catherine Dulac and Xiaowei Zhuang are poised to open it. Read more >>
Xiaowei Zhuang, the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, has been named the recipient of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in recognition of her pioneering work in the development of super-resolution microscopy techniques that have transformed research capabilities in fields from chemistry to biology to medicine. Read more >>
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded the 2018 Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics to Professor Xiaowei Zhuang in recognition of her far-reaching impact on scientific research, health, and medicine. Read more >>
HHMI scientists, led by Catherine Dulac, have deconstructed the brain circuits that control parenting behavior in mice and identified discrete sets of cells that control actions, motivations, and hormonal changes involved in nurturing young animals. Read more >>