Xiao Hong Nancy Xu

X. Nancy Xu is an elected AAAS Fellow and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Sciences, Biochemistry, and Chemistry at Old Dominion University. She has pioneered the development of a set of powerful new nano biophotonics tools for biomedical applications, and has consistently published her work in high impact peer-reviewed journals.  Dr. Xu is especially well recognized for her pioneering work in single nanoparticle optics, nano optical biosensors, single molecule detection, and single live cell imaging and has received several prestigious national awards, including Nano50 Innovator Award and Nano50 Technology Award, Finalist of NIH Follow That Cell Challenge, ACS Roland F. Hirsch Award, and AAAS Mentor Award. Her profile is at www.odu.edu/~xhxu.