We hope you’re as excited as we are for this year’s HUPO Early Career Researcher Manuscript Competition! You absolutely won’t want to miss our finalists presenting their work: Dr. Arun Vadivel (SickKids, Canada), Dr. Julia Bubis (Vienna BioCentra, Austria), and Dr. Xiang Zheng (Aarhus University, Denmark). Join us for their dedicated session at HUPO 2025 in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday November 11th at 9:10am, where the winner of this year’s competition will receive a cash prize of USD$1000 and both runners-up will each receive USD$500. This is a session you won’t want to miss!
Last, but certainly not least, we would like you to meet Dr. Xiang Zheng, an assistant professor at Aarhus University:
After earning a Bachelor of Clinical Medicine, he embarked on cancer research during his master's studies at Peking University, China. He later pursued a PhD in Human Biomedicine at the Max Planck Institute, Germany, specializing in multiplexed staining-based lung cancer biomarker identification and tumor microenvironment reprogramming.
In 2021, Dr. Zheng joined the group of Prof. Matthias Mann at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral researcher, where he integrated multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging with Deep Visual Proteomics (mipDVP) to advance spatial proteomics and resolve tumor–immune interactions at single-cell resolution. Since 2024, he has been an Assistant Professor in Spatial Proteomics at Aarhus University under the support of Prof. Robert A. Fenton, focusing on applying mipDVP to drive precision medicine research in cancer, kidney diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders.
He has authored 18 peer-reviewed publications—including 10 as first author and 3 as corresponding author—in journals including Molecular Cell, Nature Communications, and Cancer Research. His work has been recognized with 12 awards, including the Emerging Technologies Funding Award, the Danish Bioimaging Image Contest Prize, and the William MacNee Award.
We would like to extend a huge thank you to our competition sponsor, Taylor and Francis, for helping to make this competition possible!
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