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Wah Chiu is a pioneer in the development of methodologies for cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM). His work has made multiple transformational contributions in the development of single particle cryo-EM tools for the structural determination of molecular machines at atomic resolution. His lab has successfully solved cryo-EM structures of various biological complexes including viruses, chaperonins, membrane proteins, ion channels, antigen-antibody complexes, and protein-RNA complexes, partnering with scientists around the globe. He continues to establish high standards in the testing and characterization protocols for cryo-EM instrumentation while also developing new image processing and modeling algorithms for cryo-EM structure determination. His current research focuses on developing cryogenic electron tomography (cryo-ET) for determining near-atomic resolution structures of molecular complexes in situ.
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