Dr. Hong Zhao is an Associate Professor at Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine. She completed her MD and PhD studies in Neurobiology at Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, and obtained her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She recently led the spatial image-omic biomarkers for T-Dxd resistance in metastatic breast cancer project. She has published over 120 papers in various journals and serves as a PI in several NIH-funded research projects. Her interests include brain metastasis, systems immunology, and multi-scale optical imaging.