May 1st, 2026: Shenglei’s back-to-back papers were accepted to International Conference on Machine Learning 2026, one of the world’s top three conferences in AI.
Jan 15th, 2026: Congratulations to Adrian on receiving a HCRW Next Steps Award to work as a Research Associate in the lab from May 2026.
July 1st, 2025: Congratulations to Luyang on being selected to speak at the ISMB/ECCB 2025 joint conference and on winning a conference fellowship.
June 5th, 2025: Congratulations to Luyang, who has been selected to give a talk at the South-West RNA Club annual meeting 2025.
December 10th, 2024: Congratulations to Birong for successfully passing her PhD viva!
December 6th, 2024: Birong was selected to give a seminar at the EMBL-EBI-AstraZeneca workshop.
August 29th, 2024: Congratulations to Dien for successfully passing his PhD viva!
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, with full travel costs covered.
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 13th, 2023: Dr Zhou was invited to give a plenary webinar organised by the journal Nutrients.
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!
