{"id":2261,"date":"2016-05-11T18:07:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/dr-huiwang-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:48:38","slug":"dr-huiwang-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/dr-huiwang-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Huiwang Ai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Molecular Physiology &amp; Biophysics, Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering, ha8m@virginia.edu<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2184 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2016\/05\/IMG_0345-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2016\/05\/IMG_0345-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2016\/05\/IMG_0345-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2016\/05\/IMG_0345-1024x991.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2016\/05\/IMG_0345-768x743.jpg 768w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2016\/05\/IMG_0345-1536x1486.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2016\/05\/IMG_0345-2048x1982.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/ai-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2016\/05\/IMG_0345-207x200.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/>Dr. Ai received his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 2003 and Ph.D. degree from the University of Alberta in 2008 (advisor: Robert E. Campbell). He received his postdoctoral training from 2008 to 2011 in the lab of Peter G. Schultz at Scripps Research. He then became an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside. In 2017, he moved to the University of Virginia (UVA) Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics as a tenured associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 2023. He is a resident faculty member of the Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology. He is affiliated with the Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center. His lab uses interdisciplinary approaches in biophysics, chemical biology, molecular engineering, and optical imaging to study and manipulate complex biological systems, with a focus on the development of novel molecular biosensors to peer into cells and organisms to dissect biological pathways related to redox signaling, metabolism, and neuronal activity. Dr. Ai received the Hellman Fellows Award in 2013, the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2014, the CAPA Distinguished Junior Faculty Award in 2016, the American Chemical Society Toxicology Young Investigators Award in 2017, and the Pinn Scholars Award in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Email: huiwang.ai@virginia.edu, or ha8m@virginia.edu<br \/>\nOffice Location: Pinn Hall, Room 4020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Molecular Physiology &amp; Biophysics, Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering, ha8m@virginia.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pi"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Huiwang Ai - Ai Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Huiwang Ai - Ai Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Professor of Molecular Physiology &amp; 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