Dan Wu,

JAD profile

Affiliation(s): 

Zhejiang University

Areas of Interest: 

diffusion MRI, Medical image processing

Biography & Research: 

Dan Wu is currently a Principle Investigator at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumental Science, Zhejiang University. Dr. Wu obtained her Bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University and her master and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University. She served as an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine between 2016—2018, and she returned to Zhejiang University in 2018 as one of the National "One-Thousand Young Investigator" awardees. Dr. Wu’s research focuses on diffusion MRI, including the development of 3D high-resolution diffusion MRI pulse sequences, time-dependent diffusion MRI, and microstructural modeling methods. Her lab is also developing advanced image processing techniuqes to study the brain development and brain aging processes. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles in top journals of the MRI field in the recent five years (2/3 of them are first or corresponding author papers). She was the PI of several NIH grants, including R01, R21 and R03. At present, she is the PI of four key projects from the National Science Foundation of China and the National Ministry of Science and Technology in China. She was awarded the Innovator Under 35 China by MIT Technology Review in 2019 and Young Scientiest of the World Ecomony Forum.