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August 2026 Yang Yi was invited to give an oral presentation at ACACR 2026 Career Development Workshop in Ann Arbor, MI.

April 2026 Yang Yi was honored to receive the USCACA Outstanding Youth Scholar Award at 2026 Joint Annual Meeting of ACACR and USCACA in San Diego, CA.

April 2026 Dr. Yang Yi received the NIGMS MIRA (Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award). This marks the very first R01-equivalent grant awarded to Yang! Media Coverage: Role of mRNA internal 2′-O methylation in post-transcriptional regulation

March 2026 Jennifer Heo will join our lab as a Research Technologist. Welcome, Jennifer!

February 2026 Dr. Yue Zhao will join our lab as a Postdoc. Welcome, Yue!

February 2026 Yang Yi published a first author paper in Nature Communications, with the collaboration of Drs. Yanqiang Li, Qi Cao and Kaifu Chen. Media Coverage: Understanding Cancer’s Hidden Vulnerabilities

January 2026 Yang Yi was invited to give an oral presentation at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

January 2026 Dr. Youbin Zhang will join our lab as a dual-employed Research Assistant Professor. Welcome, Youbin!

November 2025 Yang Yi was honored to receive the Young Investigator Award, Society for Basic Urologic Research (SBUR) at SBUR annual meeting in Orlando, FL.

November 2025 Yang Yi published a first author/corresponding author paper in Journal of Clinical Investigation, with the collaboration of Drs. Joshua Fry, Chaehyun Yum, Qi Cao and Rendong Yang. This is Yang’s first senior author paper! Media Coverage: Exploring the Link Between RNA Modification and Prostate Cancer Growth

November 2025 Dr. Yang Yi received the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant.

April 2025 Dr. Yang Yi received the The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Grant.

July 2024 Dr. Yang Yi received the NCI-SPORE in Prostate Cancer Career Enhancement Program Award.

March 2024 Yang Yi published a co-first author paper in Molecular Cell, with the collaboration of Drs. Yanqiang Li, Qi Cao and Kaifu Chen. Media Coverage: Understanding the Role of RNA Methylation in Cancer

March 2024 Yang Yi was invited to give an oral presentation at the 2024 Multi-Institutional Prostate Cancer Program Retreat in Los Angeles, CA.

January 2024 Yi lab opens! This website was established two years after the launch of Yi lab.

June 2023 Dr. Yang Yi received the DoD Prostate Cancer Research Program Idea Development Award, which marks the first major grant awarded to Yang.