Bo Huang

Bo Huang

Bo Huang

Dr. Bo Huang is Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Biophysics (joint) at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Huang’s research work focuses on the advancement of light microscopy techniques and its application in cell biology research. His achievements encompasses a wide range of fields including protein engineering, optical engineering, computational image analysis, cell biology, genomics, and neuroscience. In particular, he has been a pioneer in the development of super-resolution. He has also invented the CRISPR imaging method which enables the tracking of the physical arrangement of the genome in living cell. His work has won himself the Searle Scholarship, the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the NIH New Innovator Award, the ASCB Early Career Life Scientist Award and the UCSF Byers Award in Basic Science. He has won the highly competitive W.M. Keck Foundation Medical Research Grant and is currently a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator.