Ruixuan Gao

Ruixuan Gao is Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences and Chemistry at University of Illinois Chicago's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research develops chemical/physical tools for nanoscale molecular mapping in biological systems, focusing on expansion microscopy techniques, neuronal ultrastructure, and molecular composition analysis in neuroscience and cancer models.

Education includes postdoctoral training at MIT/HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ph.D. from Harvard University, and B.S. from UC Berkeley. Research employs light/electron microscopy, chemical probes, and computational approaches to study synaptic architecture, nervous system organization, and clinical specimen profiling.