Xiaowei is a professor of Science, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Physics at Harvard University and an Investigator at HHMI. Xiaowei’s lab is known for the development of both MERFISH and STORM for super resolution microscopy. She has won numerous awards including the 2021 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2019 NAS Award for Scientific Discovery. Xiaowei has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine.