Xiang Zheng

Title

Assistant Professor

Primary affiliation

Xiang Zheng

Areas of expertise

  • Spatial proteomics

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Profile

After earning my Bachelor of Medicine, I embarked on cancer research during my master's studies at Peking University, China. I later pursued my PhD in Human Biomedicine at the Max Planck Institute, Germany, specializing in multiplex staining-based lung cancer biomarker identification and tumor microenvironment reprogramming. In 2021, I joined the group of Prof. Matthias Mann at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral researcher, where I integrated multiplex immunofluorescence imaging with Deep Visual Proteomics (mipDVP) to advance spatial proteomics and resolve tumor–immune interactions at single-cell resolution. Since 2024, I have been an Assistant Professor of Spatial Proteomics at Aarhus University under the support of Prof. Robert A. Fenton, focusing on applying mipDVP to drive precision medicine research in cancer, kidney diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders. I have authored 18 peer-reviewed publications—including 10 as first author and 3 as corresponding author—in journals such as Molecular Cell, Nature Communications, and Cancer Research. My work has been recognized with 12 awards, including the Emerging Technologies Funding Award, the Danish Bioimaging Image Contest Prize, and the William MacNee Award.

Research

My research focuses on utilizing spatial proteomics to enhance precision medicine, particularly in cancers, neurodegenerative disorders, and kidney diseases.

Selected publications

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