Shan Zhao ☕️

About Me

Dr. Zhao received her PhD in Medical Research at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich under the supervision of Professor Ali Maximilian Ertürk in 2020. Then she conducted postdoctoral research at University of Zurich/ETH working with Professor Bernd Bodenmiller. She joined NBIC in October of 2024 as an Assistant Professor.

Interests
  • Tissue transparency
  • Spatial omics
  • Artificial Intelligence
Education
  • Medical Research (Ph.D.)

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany

  • Applied Chemistry (Master)

    Beijing Institute of Technology, China

  • PET (Bachelor of Engineering)

    Beijing Institute of Technology, China

📚 My Research

The molecular and structural research of holistic organisms aims to comprehensively delineate their composition, structure, function and interrelationship at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ levels.

Dr. Zhao’s laboratory is committed to elucidating the molecular and structural details of organism that governing physiological and pathological changes, by developing 3D multi-omics technologies that combining whole organ transparency, advanced imaging system (e.g. light-sheet) and deep-learning analysis for a wide range of biomedical studies, including Cancer and Microbiome, Stroke, Quantitative Medicine, etc.

Please reach out to collaborate 😃

Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2025). Nanocarrier imaging at single-cell resolution across entire mouse bodies with deep learning. Nature Biotechnology.
(2024). Persistence of spike protein at the skull-meninges-brain axis may contribute to the neurological sequelae of COVID-19. Cell Host & Microbe.
(2024). Virtual reality-empowered deep-learning analysis of brain cells. Nature Methods.
(2024). Benchtop mesoSPIM: a next-generation open-source light-sheet microscope for cleared samples. Nature Communications.
(2024). Multiplex protein imaging in tumour biology. Nature Reviews Cancer.
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