Ding's research focuses on RNA, emerging from basic single-cell research to tool developments for nucleic-acid based therapies, all at the single molecule level.

Ding has joint faculty appointments in the Departments of Developmental and Cell Biology, and 

B.S., Nanjing University, Physics
Ph.D., École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Biophysics

Spatial transcriptomics, RNA biology and engineering, synthetic biology, single molecule imaging and biophysics