A/Professor Chi-Min (Mimi) Ho

Chi-Min Ho earned her B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley in 2004, after which she worked on membrane protein structure in the lab of Robert Stroud at UCSF for six years and small molecule drug discovery in the Infectious Diseases Division at Novartis NIBR for three years before returning to academia to pursue a doctoral degree in 2014. She completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at UCLA under the mentorship of Dr. Hong Zhou in 2019 and joined the Faculty at Columbia University in January 2020. Dr. Ho is a 2024 Pew Scholar and recipient of the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award.