Bo Huang

University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Bo Huang is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Biophysics (joint) at University of California, San Francisco, and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Peking University, China, in 2001 and Ph. D. degree in Chemistry at Stanford University in 2006. After finishing postdoc work at Harvard University in 2009, he joined UCSF as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2017. Dr. Huang’s research work encompasses the areas of optical microscopy, bioengineering, biophysics and cell biology. Dr. Huang has received many awards, including the GE Healthcare and Science Prize for Young Life Scientists, Searle Scholarship, Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the American Society for Cell Biology Young Life Scientist Award, and UCSF Byers Award for Basic Science.