ZHUANG was honored for her seminal contribution to the invention, development, and biophysical applications of Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM) and related methods of super-resolution microscopy. 

The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics has been established through the generosity of Dr. Raymond and Mrs. Beverly Sackler, which is intended to encourage dedication to science, originality and excellence by awarding outstanding scientists.

ZHUANG was born in 1972. She entered School of Gifted Young of University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 15, 1987. She pursued her study in the United States in 1991 and got Ph.D. in Physics in University of California, Berkeley in 1997. The Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu was her tutor in her postdoctoral study. ZHUANG entered Harvard University after graduation. She was awarded by the American MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award" in 2003, as the first Chinese women scientists, also the youngest in 24 winners. In March 2005, the United States Howard Hughes Medical Research selected 43 life scientists from more than 300 nominees and began to support each of 700 million dollars in the next 7 years. ZHUANG Xiaowei along with LUO Liqun, another USTC alumnus, was in the list. Currently ZHUANG has established her own single-molecule biophysics lab name after her at Harvard University, leading doctors and  postdoctoral fellows to do research on the process of how influenza, AIDS, SARS and other viruses invade host cells.

(News Center of USTC)