|06/01/2026| Welcome back Jennifer as a summer visiting student to continue her research in the lab. | Welcome Hailey Yang, an undergraduate student from Washington University in St. Louis, as a visiting student in the Lab! | Welcome Yanni Wang joined the lab as Research assistant
|05/07/2026| Congratulations to Huijie for receiving a Poster Presentation Award at the 2026 Mays Cancer Center Joint T32 Retreat.
|05/06/2026| Congratulations to Huijie on passing her Ph.D. qualifying exam! She is now a Ph.D. candidate.
|04/28/2026| Congratulations to Huijie for receiving the Carrillo Memorial Fellowship Award and to Qili for receiving the Susan L. Naylor Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Studies.
|12/22/2025| Dr. Jun Xu joined the lab as postdoctoral fellow
|12/09/2025| Qili presented our work at 67th ASH Annual Meeting
|11/22/2025| Yu gave a talk at SCBA-HD online seminar
|08/06/2025| Congratulations to Chiara for winning 1st place for her presentation in the 2025 ACS Summer Cancer Research Program!
|06/01/2025| Two undergraduate research students, Jennifer and Chiara, joined our lab.
|06/01/2025| Our collaborative project has been awarded NIH R21 funding!
|05/09/2025| Yu is invited to give a talk at 4D Nucleome Single-Cell for All symposium
|05/01/2025| Qili’s poster got Post-doctoral Fellow Poster Award, Congratulations
|05/01/2025| Yu received Junior Research Faculty Award
|01/09/2025| Qili, Chenhui, and Qiushi's collaborative study with Dr. Gang Huang was published as a cover article in JCI
|12/11/2024| Yu gave a talk at 2024 4DN Annual Meeting
|12/08/2024| Dr. Qili Shi joined the lab as postdoctoral fellow
|10/01/2023| Yu received Mays Cancer Center Early-Stage Investigator Award
|08/26/2024| We present our work “Impact of Non-coding GWAS Variants on Gene Regulation“ at Mays Cancer Center
|08/08/2024| Welcome our very first graduate student, Huijie Yang, PhD in IBMS program
|05/31/2024| Yu is invited to give a talk at GCCRI Seminar Series.
|05/22/2024| Yu received UT System Rising STARs award. |News release|
|05/08/2024| Yu is invited to give a talk at the UTHSA Department of Molecular Medicine Spring Seminar Series.
|05/01/2024| A talented computer science student Lila will join the lab in summer, Welcome, Lila.
|02/21/2024| Yu is award by CPRIT as CPRIT Scholar. $2,000,000 in Additional Startup Funding for Launching the Lab |News release|
|02/01/2024 | Luan Lab officially opens at UTHSA. A new adventure starts. We are recruiting at all levels.

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