Dan Fu
Assistant professor
University of Washington
USA
Biography
Dan Fu is Assistant professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington. He received his bachelor's degree from Peking University in China (2003). In 2009, he completed his PhD study at Princeton University under the supervision of Professor Warren Warren, working on the development of novel label-free multiphoton absorption microscopy methods. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the G.R.Harrison Spectroscopy Lab led by the late professor Michael Feld at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he investigated quantitative phase microscopy and its applications to live cell imaging. In 2010, he moved to Harvard University to work with Professor Sunney Xie as a postdoctoral fellow, where he developed multiplex stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering microscopy. He joined the faculty of the University of Washington in the summer of 2015.
Research Interest
Currently his main research interests are the development of quantitative label-free optical microscopy and their biomedical applications such as cancer diagnosis and staging, single cell metabolism, and drug-cell interaction.