On Friday, September 21, Xiaowei Zhuang recieved the 2023 Dreyfus Prize and delievered her prize lecture in Pfizer Lecture Hall entitled "Vizualizing biology at the nanoscale & genome-scale: From molecular structures in neurons to cell atlas of the brain."
On May 12 the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced that Xiaowei Zhuang was the recipient of the organization’s highest honor and only international prize, the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.
Zhuang received this top honor for her pivotal contributions to Imaging in the Chemical Sciences. She is recognized for pioneering work to develop groundbreaking super-resolution imaging and genome-scale imaging methods and utilizing those methods to gain important new insights about biological molecules and systems. These methods and insights have had a widespread impact in the fields of chemistry, biology, neuroscience, and medicine.
H. Scott Walter, President of the Dreyfus Foundation, remarked, “The Dreyfus Foundation is proud to recognize the numerous accomplishments of Xiaowei Zhuang in the field of imaging in the chemical sciences with the Foundation’s highest honor – the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.”
A live-stream recording of Zhuang's Dreyfus Lecture is embedded below.
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