Dr Bridget Carragher

Institutions

Founding Technical Director: Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging

About

Dr. Bridget Carragher is the founding Technical Director of the Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute since January 2023.

She received a PhD in Biophysics from the University of Chicago in 1987 and worked in a variety of positions, both in industry and academia before moving to the New York Structural Biology Center in 2015 to lead the Simons Electron Microscopy Center (SEMC), together with Clint Potter.

While at SEMC, Bridget and Clint directed the National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy (NRAMM), the National Center for CryoEM Access and Training (NCCAT), the National Center for In-situ Tomographic Ultramicroscopy (NCITU), and the Simons Machine Learning Center (SMLC). They also founded the company NanoImaging Services in 2007.