Zhen Xu, Ph.D., professor, Michigan Medicine
Rogel member Zhen Xu, Ph.D., was selected to Time magazine’s TIME100 Health. The magazine describes it as a list of the “the people most influential in the world of health right now.”
Time’s health reporters consulted with experts around the world to identify scientists, doctors, advocates, educators and policy-makers “who are changing the health of the world.”
Xu was recognized for developing histotripsy, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2023 to treat liver tumors.
Read more: https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2026/7362509/zhen-xu/
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