Changyang Linghu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology and Affiliate in Michigan Neuroscience Institute, has been named one of MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2024. The Innovators Under 35 is a peer-reviewed annual award and listicle published by MIT Technology Review magazine, naming the world's top 35 exceptionally talented young innovators from a wide range of fields whose work has the greatest potential to transform the world.
By developing a genetically encoded molecular recording system, Changyang’s work on "Intracellular Protein Tapes" has enabled the tracking of cellular events over time in a fashion similar to how growing tree rings reveal a tree’s history. This innovation allows scalable recording of cellular activities across large populations of live cells, providing a new way to observe and investigate complex physiological and pathological processes in biology and medicine.
The potential impact of this research includes unraveling the mystery of how brain functions such as memory and computation emerge from the collective activities of individual cells across the living brain.
Join us in celebrating this achievement! To follow Changyang’s groundbreaking work, visit his lab website at spatialbiodynamics.org or follow him on Twitter @ChangyangLinghu.