News

  • March 29th, 2024: Congratulations to Dien, who was selected to give a talk at the APASL 2024 annual meeting and won an Investigator Award.

  • March 1st, 2024: Congratulations to Wei for winning the European Association for the Study of Obesity Travel Grant and being selected to give a talk at the 31st European Congress on Obesity annual meeting.

  • November 27th, 2023: Dien’s review on Complement and NAFLD has been published in Liver International.

  • October 25th, 2023: Congratulations to Birong, who was selected as a finalist for the PGR Student Excellence Award for Innovation!

  • October 1st, 2023: Welcome to Luyang, who is joining the lab as a new PhD student.

  • September 25th, 2023: Congratulations to Birong, who was handpicked to attend the 2023 EASO Early Career Network Winter School!

  • September 7th, 2023: Congratulations to Dien for winning the ECR award at the 29th International Compelment Workshop for his talk and abstract. Well done!

  • July 5th, 2023: Our paper on COVID19 and SLE has been published in Clinical Immunology. This is a multi-team effort with great collaborators in Wuhan!

  • June 22nd, 2023: Birong was selected to give a talk on circRNA and NAFLD at the South West UK RNA Club.

  • October 10th, 2022: Our collaborative paper with Dr Yao on metabolic inflammation has been published in Allergy.

  • October 1st, 2022: Welcome two new PhD students, Adrian and Shenglei join the lab!

  • August 3rd, 2022: A fully funded PhD studentship (starting in Oct 2022) is available in the lab. Full tuition fee, personal stipend and research consumbles are covered. To apply please visit: https://bit.ly/3KlDfT5

  • August 1, 2022: We won a Wellcome Trust ITPA Knowledge Exchange and Training Award to work together with AstraZeneca!

  • July 22, 2022: We were awared a fully funded 3-year PhD studentship by the Health and Care Research Wales.

  • March 30, 2022: We received a Translation of Concept Scheme Institutional Translational Partnership Award from the Wellcome Trust towards finding new therapeutics to treat steteohepatitis.

  • February 4th, 2022: Together with Drs Garay and Siebzehnrubl, our application to a 4-year UKRI-BBSRC South West Bioscience PhD studentship was funded.

  • December 10th, 2021: Congratulations to Dien who won the best oral presentation award for PhD students in the Cardiff Infection and Immunity annual meeting 2021.

  • Oct 01, 2021: Welcome the new PhD student, Wei Hang who recently completed his MSc in Chemical Engineering from Xiamen.

  • March 15, 2021: Our 16S rRNA computational pipeline has been successfully used in a collaborative project led by Dr Yao as published in Science Advances.

  • Jan 10, 2021: Through collaboration with Dr Irshad, our collaborartive work on COVID19 in cancer patients has been published in Cancer cell.

  • Oct 08, 2020: Welcome the new PhD student, Birong Zhang who recently completed her Msc in statistics. Welcome the new joint PhD student, Jack McGeown (main supervisor: Dr Yao).

  • Sep 01, 2020: Proud of working in our BSI South Wales Immunology Group as featured in Immunology News.

  • March 15, 2020: A BBSRC EASTBIO DTP PhD studentship led by Dr Yao has been funded. Glad to serve as the 2nd supervisor.

  • Feb 01, 2020: We have been awarded the AWS Cloud Credits for Research (formerly AWS research grant). Thank you, Amazon!

  • Jan 13, 2020: Welcome Dien joining the lab as a PhD student. Thanks for the generous support by Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship for Research Excellence.

  • Nov 1, 2019: Welcome Dr Jing Sun from China Medical University joining the lab as a visiting scholar.

  • Oct 10, 2019: A GW4 PhD studentship is available in the lab. We WELCOME applicants from disciplines including Mathematics, Computer Science, Informatics, Bioinformatics or Biomedicine. To apply please see: https://bit.ly/2ppsM3C

  • Sep 25, 2019: Roanne has won the “Best Oral Presentation” Award at the European meeting on Comelment in human disease in Madrid. Congratulations!

  • July 01, 2019: Dr Zhou is now an Associate Theme Leader of Immunology, Infection and Inflammation in our College.

  • June 23, 2019: Welcome to Kayla Chan from School of Computer Science. She will do her master thesis in developing a webtool for lipidomic analysis.

  • June 20, 2019: In collaboration with researchers in mathematics and computer science, we worked on tackling healthcare challenges from industry using AI as highlighted in the University News.

  • June 18, 2019: Wellcome Adrian Chau joining the lab. He has recently been awarded a Wellcome Inspire Vacation Studentship to do his summer intern in the lab.

  • May 1, 2019: Dr. Zhou is invited to give a lecture at the Endocrinology, Nutrition & Metabolism & Cardiovascular seminar at the Southampton General Hospital (University of Southampton) on 25th June 2019.

  • Apr. 1, 2019: Dr. Zhou is invited to give a talk at the University of Edinburgh/Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar programme on May 17, 2019.

  • Feb 2019: Dr. Zhou is now an editor of Frontiers in Pharmacology and Frontiers in Genetics for a topic: “Gene Variation and Drug Efficacy in the Field of NAFLD or NASH”.

  • Jan. 22, 2019: Through collaboration with Dr. Gong at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, our circular RNA screening workflow is published in Cell Death & Disease!

  • Dec. 2018: Our collaborative paper in Diabete Care has been commented in the New York Times!

  • Oct. 2018: Nick was selected to give an oral presentation in the I&I annual meeting at the Cardiff City Stadium. The only medical student was selected. Congratulaions!

  • Sep. 2018: Our paper titled “Hepatic ceramides dissociate steatosis and insulin resistance in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease” has been featured as a highly cited paper by the Essential Science Indicators (ESI). Its citations ranked top 1% of the academic field of Clinical Medicine.

  • June 21, 2018: Through collaboration with Prof. Yki-Jarvinen at the University of Helsinki, our paper titled “Saturated fat is more metabolically harmful for the human liver than unsaturated fat or simple sugars” is accepted in Diabete Care!

  • Sep 2018: David has been awarded an intercalation offer to study in Imperial. Congratulations!

  • June 2018: We have been granted DIRI Seedcorn Fund.

  • Apr. 2018: Dr. Zhou is selected as the chair of the British Society for Immunology South Wales Group

  • Oct. 2017: We have won the Immune Homeostasis Innovation Funding Award by Cancer Research UK and Arthritis Research UK

  • July 18-20, 2017: Dr. Zhou attended the Immune Homeostasis Innovation Workshop co-organised by Cancer Research UK and Arthritis Research UK.

  • June 6 2017: Dr. Zhou gave a talk at the “Data Challenges in Systems Immunology” seminar.

  • May 2017: Our paper on IL-9 and liver fibrosis has been recommended by Faculty of 1000 with ★★ as “New Finding” and “Novel Drug Target” and “Elegant study”!

  • Mar. 2017: Our paper on hepatic ceramides has been featured in Faculty of 1000!

  • Dec. 2016: Our novel “omics” approach for diagnosis of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis has been highlighted on Daily Express,Cardiff Star, New Atlas, Bioanalysis-zone, Associació Catalana de Malalts d’Hepatitis, Cardiff University News etc!

  • Oct. 2016: Our paper on using lipidomics, metabolomics and genetics for diagnosis of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis has been published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology!

  • June 2016: Our paper on the lipidomic analysis of ceramides in liver biopsies has been published in Journal of Hepatology!

  • Mar. 2016: Our paper on the role of IL-9 in liver fibrosis has been published in Scientific Reports!