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Pang’s primary research focus is to nucleate transformative technology development and to foster discoveries in life science. At YSM, she aims to expand the application space of the proprietary enhanced Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (eFIB-SEM) technology beyond experimental model systems to the realms of translational and clinical research. Prior to joining YSM, Pang was the lead scientist in FIB-SEM Technologies group at the Janelia Research Campus of Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She proposed and developed the enhanced FIB-SEM pipeline beyond Drosophila connectome research. She together with colleagues, created the very first open-access 3D atlas at the finest isotropic resolution using the eFIB-SEM platform. Inspired to probe brain functions using semiconductor technologies, Pang applied her semiconductor device integration expertise to brain...

C. Shan Xu graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China and obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. Xu went on to serve as a technical director at Lam Research Corporation, where he oversaw research, development, and dissemination of cutting-edge semiconductor technologies. In 2009, he joined the Janelia Research Campus of Howard Hughes Medical Institute to develop enhanced focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy (eFIB-SEM). In 2022, Xu joined Yale School of Medicine as a Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology. In addition to his contributions to technology development, highlighted by more than twenty patents, Xu is known for his innovation and leadership in transforming conventional FIB-SEM from a lab tool that is unreliable for more than a...