News

Ankush Verma, a first-year med student in Anesthesiology, joined us through the Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowship (MSARF) program on June 2! Welcome, Ankush!

Sean Duffy officially join our team as the first graduate student! He will be studying extracellular matrix microenvironment on tissue homeostasis. Welcome, Ryan!!!

Dr. Yongdae Yoon won first place in abstract competition during Anesthesiology Department annual retreat and gave a podium presentation on his study 'VEGF-D, unlike VEGF-A, improves vascular integrity in the lung and exerts a protective effect during acute lung injury on May 16, 2025! Congrats, Yongdae!

Dr. Yifan Yuan was invited to give a talk on the role of VEGF-D in vascular integrity during the American Physiology Summit 2025 on April 24, 2025.

Dr. Yifan Yuan won first place in Young Investigator Award competition during ACRE symposium on April 22, 2025. Congrats, Dr. Yuan!

Sean Duffy joined our team on February 27, 2025, as rotation students from the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program. Welcome, Ryan!

Elaine Wu and Lamiya Hassan Tithy joined our team on February 10, 2025, as rotation students from the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Welcome, Elaine and Lamiya!

Our collaborative work has been published in Cell Stem Cell https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909(24)00406-5. Congrats, Dr. Yuan!

Our collaborative work has been published in Mucosal Immunology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S193302192500008X. Congrats, Dr. Yuan!

Kevin Wilkinson joined our team on January 6, 2025, as the second rotation student from the Molecule Medicine Program. Welcome, Kevin!

Tessa Maidens joined our team on July 1, 2024, as the first rotation student from the Molecule Medicine Program. Welcome, Tessa!

Aiswarya Suriaprakash joined our team on June 1, 2024, as the first summer student from University of Maryland, College Park. Welcome Aiswarya!

Dr. Yifan Yuan was invited to give a presentation on the role of VEGF-D in lung vascular integrity during the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference 2024 in sunny San Diego, CA on May 20, 2024.

Dr. Yongdae Yoon joined our lab on April 22, 2024, as the first postdoctoral fellow! Welcome, Yongdae!

Dr. Yifan Yuan won the Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot award! We want to thank the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) for the support. https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/anesthesiology/about-us/department-news/2024-news/drs-yifan-yuan-and-konstantin-birukov-win-accelerated-translational-incubator-pilot-award.html

Shannon Kirk joined our lab as a Lab Assistant and the first lab personnel in November. Welcome, Shannon!

Yuan Lab was awarded 3-year R00 grant from NHLBI on August 1, 2023. Thank you for the support!

Yuan Lab was officially launched on August 1, 2023 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine!!!