Qing Tang , PhD
Qing Tang holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he studied the biological effects of ultrasound and electromagnetic fields. Right before joining Leica Microsystems, he had worked in a lab building a near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) and total internal reflection microscope (TIRFM) to track single molecules. He has been working at Leica Microsystems since 2005, first as an advanced workflow specialist for widefield (WF) and presently for confocal.
Studying Pulmonary Fibrosis
The results shown in this article demonstrate that fibrotic and non-fibrotic regions of collagen present in mouse lung tissue can be distinguished better with polarized light compared to brightfield.…