News | Yang Lab

- - - 2025
      - Our collaborative work with Drs. Jeff Holt and Zheng Wang advanced the understanding of TMEM63B channelopathy. It was published in Neuron. 06/25.
        
        Huanghe Yang received the School of Medicine Research Mentoring Awards. 05/25
        
        Welcome Ale Gonzales Torres, a first year graduate student, joined our team! 05/25
        
        Takafumi and Ping’s study on a new neuronal inhibitory mechanism in medial habenula neurons was published in Science Advances. Research Highlight here. Congrats! 03/25
        
        Gus received the 2025 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE). Congratulations! 03/25
        
        Huanghe received the 2025 Paul F. Cranefield award. 02/25
        
        Pengfei secured a faculty offer as an assistant professor at Ohio State University. 2nd faculty from our lab. Congratulations! 01/25
    - 2024
      - Congratulations to Gus, Pengfei and Yang for their excellent finding about the evolutionary conserved lipid scrambling potential for the TCS super-family! It is published in eLife. 11/24
        
        Zoe received 2024 Gridley McKim-Smith Women’s Health Fellowship Award. Congrats! 10/24
        
        Dr. Neslihan Cilek joined the lab. Welcome! 09/24
        
        Huda Hashash starts her rotation. Welcome! 09/24
        
        Zoe received the Duke Genomics Travel Award via the Duke Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies (CAGT). Congratulations! 08/24
        
        Serena, Zoe and Penfei gave great oral/poster presentations in the Hemostasis GRC. Great job! 08/24
        
        Hematology Fellow Chris Hahn MD. joined the lab. Welcome! 07/24
        
        Coco Liu starts her rotation. Welcome! 07/24
        
        Zoe and Trieu’s First Person Interview by J. Cell Sci. is online. Congratulations! 07/24
        
        Zoe and Trieu’s paper about TMEM16F’s intracellular signaling role in angiogenesis was accepted by J. Cell Sci. Congratulations! 07/24
        
        J. Gen. Physiol. chose our niclosamide paper as the cover of their July issue. Many thanks to Dr. Criss Hartzell! 07/24
        
        Chris Hahn starts his hematology fellow research in the lab. Welcome! 07/24
        
        Our discovery of the midline thalamus in absence epilepsy is accepted in PNAS. 06/24
        
        Pengfei won the 2nd place of the best poster prize during the 1st Gateway Ion Channel Symposium. Congratulations! 06/24
        
        Pengfei’s mechanistic study of niclosamide effect on TMEM16A was published in J. Gen. Physiol. Congratulations! 05/24
        
        Ryan Chou joined the lab to conduct his undergraduate independent study. Welcome! 05/24
        
        Welcome exchange student Wenxuan Zhen from Zhejiang university! 03/24
        
        Pengfei won the American Society of Hematology postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations! 01/24
        
        Aiza Akhtar joined the lab to conduct her undergraduate independent study. Welcome! 01/24
        
        Sophia Link starts her rotation in the lab. Welcome! 01/24
    - 2023
      - Our first red blood cell manuscript got accepted by Blood. Congratulations Yang, Pengfei and other authors! See commentary. 11/2023
        
        Huanghe won the Duke SPARK Award. 11/2023
        
        Serena passed prelim. Official PhD candidate. Congratulations! 10/2023
        
        Gus won the best poster award in our department retreat. Congrats! 10/2023
        
        Luna Chen, a rising high school junior, starts her summer intern in the lab. Welcome! 07/24
        
        Serena received the American Hematology Society predoctoral fellowship. Congrats! 06/2023