Ji-Xin Cheng Named BU’s Innovator of the Year
Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics Ji-Xin has been named the 2022 Boston University Innovator of the Year. The College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and materials science and engineering has a long list of trailblazing achievements, including inventing a way to use blue light and hydrogen peroxide to treat a drug-resistant skin infection called MRSA, finding molecular signatures associated with aggressive cancers for treatment and diagnosis, and creating novel imaging techniques using infrared light to see molecules inside living cells.
