News

August 2024

Hikari Yoshikawa joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Hikari Yoshikawa as its newest member!

May 2024

Dr Zhenyu Zhong is presented with 2024 AAI Aspire Award

Congratulations Dr. Zhong!

May 2024

Xu Jiang, Ph.D. joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Xu Jaing as its newest member!

April 2024

Qiuyun Pan joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Qiuyun Pan as its newest member!

January 2024

Dr. Zhong receives prestigious award

Congratulations to Dr. Zhong on the well-deserved recognition of receiving the prestigious American Association of Immunologists ASPIRE Award. This accolade highlights Dr. Zhong's outstanding research accomplishments and professional promise in the field of immunology. https://www.aai.org/Awards/Career/AAI-ASPIRE-Award

October 2023

Dr. Danhui Liu, Ph.D. presenting her poster

Dr. Danhui Liu presents her poster to incoming graduate students.

June 2023

Dr. Shuhan Yang joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong lab is pleased to welcome Dr. Shuhan Yang as its newest member!

March 2023

Grant awarded to the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab has received a grant from CPRIT for their work investigating the mechanism of NLRP3 inflammasome hyperactivation during hepatocellular carcinoma development

February 2023

Lina Guo joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Lina Guo as its newest member!

January 2023

Paola Barajas joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Paola Barajas as its newest member!

December 2022

The Zhong Lab publishes an article in Immunity!

Prolonged hypernutrition impairs TREM2-dependent efferocytosis to license chronic liver inflammation and NASH development.
Wang X, He Q, Zhou C, Xu Y, Liu D, Fujiwara N, Kubota N, Click A, Henderson P, Vancil J, Marquez CA, Gunasekaran G, Schwartz ME, Tabrizian P, Sarpel U, Fiel MI, Diao Y, Sun B, Hoshida Y, Liang S, Zhong Z. Immunity. 2022 Dec 9:S1074-7613(22)00603-3.

Link to article here

October 2022

The Zhong Lab wins 3rd place in the departmental Halloween door decorating contest

October 2022

The Zhong Lab celebrates acceptance of their newest paper

February 2022

Dr. Ruiyao Xu joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Ruiyao Xu as its newest member!

September 2021

Dr. Zhong receives MIRA R35!

Dr. Zhong has received an NIH-NIGMS MIRA R35 grant!

August 2020

Dr. Zhenyu Zhong earns the Milstein Award

Congratulations to Dr. Zhenyu Zhong for earning one of the three 2020 Milstein Young Investigator Awards!

June 2021

Dr. Danhui Liu joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Danhui Liu as its newest member!

November 2019

Dr. Xiaochen Wang joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Dr. Xiaochen Wang as its newest member!

September 2019

Dr. Jiang Dai joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Dr. Jiang Dai as its newest member!

July 2019

Dr. Shuang Liang receives the Pinnacle Research Award

Congratulations to Dr. Shuang Liang for earning the prestigious Pinnacle Research Award from American Association for the Studies of Liver Diseases (AASLD)!

June 2019

Shanshan Huo joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Shanshan Huo as its newest member!

November 2018

Lacy Cox joins the Zhong Lab

The Zhong Lab is pleased to welcome Lacy Cox as its newest member!