Tang Lab @ UChicago

Group News

03/03/2025: Dr. Wenhao Wu joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate.

01/07/2025: Keyuan Ren and Yueh (Mason) Lu join the lab as graduate students.

11/04/2024: Yuan Wu wins Grier Prize (for Innovative Research in the Biophysical Sciences) for his project, “Precise genome editing with context-specific base editor”. Congrats! 

09/01/2024: Raheel Ahmad joins the lab as MD/PhD track graduate student.

08/01/2024: Dr. Yinan Wu joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate.

05/31/2024: Sandrine Legault receives Charles and Sophie Pettigrew Greene Graduate Fellowship. Congrats!

05/31/2024: Quan Duong receives Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prizes for Excellence in Teaching. Congrats!

03/05/2024: Dr. Hui Chen joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate.

12/16/2023: Iva Mohora and Quan Duong join the lab as graduate students.

11/30/2023: Sandrine Legault joins the lab as graduate student.

06/08/2023: The manuscript titled “An Engineered Hypercompact CRISPR-Cas12f System with Boosted Gene-Editing Activity” has been accepted by Nature Chemical Biology. Congrats to all authors from the Tang lab, and the Zhao lab.

06/02/2023: Siyuan Zou receives Josef Fried Fellowship. Congrats!

03/07/2023: The First Reaction titled “Smoking-Related DNA Alkylation Events Are Mapped at Single-Nucleotide Resolution” in ACS Central Science is now online.

01/02/2023: The first manuscript of the Tang lab has been published on Nature Biotechnology. Congratulations to all authors from the Tang lab, the Chen lab, and the He lab.

10/18/2022: Weixin receives the Packard Fellowship. Congrats!

01/10/2022:  Alvin Huang receives Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program training grant. Congrats!

12/06/2021: Alvin Huang and Siyuan Zou join the lab as graduate students.

11/05/2021 Dr. Lei Liu joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate.

09/23/2021: Weixin receives the NIH NIBIB Trailblazer Award together with Prof. Jueqi Chen. Congrats to both!

05/20/2021: Weixin is named Searle Scholar. Congrats!

02/01/2021: Emily He, Yuan Wu, and Olivia Pura join the lab as graduate students.

12/01/2020: Dr. Haoyan Wang joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate.

10/01/2020: Dr. Tong Wu joins the lab as a joint postdoctoral research associate (co-advised by Prof. Chuan He).

03/01/2020: Dr. Hao Yan joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate.

02/01/2020: Allison Brink joins the lab as a graduate student.

12/01/2019: Steven Xu joins the lab as an undergraduate student.

11/01/2019: Our first wet lab experiment was carried out.

10/01/2019: Dr. Yulan Xiao joins the lab as a postdoctoral research associate.

06/01/2019: Dr. Weixin Tang receives the Neubauer Family Assistant Professorship.