30 September 2026: We were awarded UKRI MRC IAA funding.
6 September 2026: Our work was featured by Cardiff University and Phys.org
5 September 2026: Congratulations to Adrian on winning a Poster Prize at the 20th European Meeting on Complement in Human Disease!
26 August 2026: Congratulations to Adrian, who successfully passed his PhD viva with very minor revisions. He continues in the lab as a Research Associate, supported by an HCRW Next Steps Award.
16 June 2026: You Zhou gave an invited seminar at the Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona (IDIBGI)
11 June 2026: You Zhou was selected as a finalist for the Cardiff University MEDIC Annual PGR Outstanding Supervisor Award. Congratulations to Adrian on being selected as a finalist for the Annual PGR Student Award for Engagement.
1 May 2026: Shenglei’s back-to-back papers were accepted to ICML 2026, one of the world’s top three conferences in AI.
1 July 2025: Congratulations to Luyang on being selected to speak at the ISMB/ECCB 2025 joint conference and on winning a conference fellowship.
5 June 2025: Congratulations to Luyang, who has been selected to give a talk at the South-West RNA Club annual meeting 2025.
10 December 2024: Congratulations to Birong for successfully passing her PhD viva!
6 December 2024: Birong was selected to give a seminar at the EMBL-EBI-AstraZeneca workshop.
29 August 2024: Congratulations to Dien for successfully passing his PhD viva!
29 March 2024: Congratulations to Dien, who was selected to give a talk at the APASL 2024 annual meeting and won an Investigator Award.
1 March 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.
27 November 2023: Dien’s review on Complement and NAFLD has been published in Liver International.
25 October 2023: Congratulations to Birong, who was selected as a finalist for the PGR Student Excellence Award for Innovation!
25 September 2023: Congratulations to Birong, who was handpicked to attend the 2023 EASO Early Career Network Winter School, with full travel costs covered.
7 September 2023: Congratulations to Dien for winning the ECR award at the 29th International Compelment Workshop for his talk and abstract. Well done!
13 July 2023: Dr Zhou was invited to give a plenary webinar organised by the journal Nutrients.
5 July 2023: Our paper on COVID19 and SLE has been published in Clinical Immunology. This is a multi-team effort with great collaborators in Wuhan!
- 10 October 2022: Our collaborative paper with Dr Yao on metabolic inflammation has been published in Allergy.
1 August 2022: We won a Wellcome Trust ITPA Knowledge Exchange and Training Award to work together with AstraZeneca!
22 July 2022: We were awared a fully funded 3-year PhD studentship by the Health and Care Research Wales.
30 March 2022: We received a Translation of Concept Scheme Institutional Translational Partnership Award from the Wellcome Trust towards finding new therapeutics to treat steteohepatitis.
4 February 2022: Together with Drs Garay and Siebzehnrubl, our application to a 4-year UKRI-BBSRC South West Bioscience PhD studentship was funded.
10 December 2021: Congratulations to Dien who won the best oral presentation award for PhD students in the Cardiff Infection and Immunity annual meeting 2021.
15 March 2021: Our 16S rRNA computational pipeline has been successfully used in a collaborative project led by Dr Yao as published in Science Advances.
10 Jan 2021: Through collaboration with Dr Irshad, our collaborartive work on COVID19 in cancer patients has been published in Cancer cell.
1 Sep 2020: Proud of working in our BSI South Wales Immunology Group as featured in Immunology News.
15 March 2020: A BBSRC EASTBIO DTP PhD studentship led by Dr Yao has been funded. Glad to serve as the 2nd supervisor.
1 Feb 2020: We have been awarded the AWS Cloud Credits for Research (formerly AWS research grant). Thank you, Amazon！