Welcome to the Huang Lab
We are a lab working on epigenetics: the software that fine-tunes the human genome
LAB NEWS
2026
2/2026 - Award newsCongratulations to Maryn Cavalier for receiving the VOYAGER Grant (Venturing Opportunities for Young AGE Geroscientists in Education and Research) from the American Aging Association (AGE).
1/2026 - Research news
Our publication entitled "RNA-mediated condensation of TFE3 oncofusions facilitates transcriptional hub formation to promote translocation renal cell carcinoma" has been selected as one of the Top 10 Biotechnology Discoveries and Innovations in 2025 by ENTECH Magazine.
1/2026 - Award news
Congratulations to Dr. Yuhan Yang for receiving the Keystone Symposia Scholarship from Keystone Symposia - Cardiometabolism in Health and Disease.
2025
11/2025 - Grant news
Congratulations to Dr. Lei Guo for receiving 1.2 million CPRIT award to study how abnormal TFE3 fusion proteins drives translocation renal cell carcinoma (tRCC).
10/2025 - Award news
Congratulations to Dr. Yun Nancy Huang for receiving Senior Investigator Research Excellence Award from Varesh K. Vashisht College of Medicine, Texas A&M University
11/2025 - Group news
Congratulations to James Wengler, Logan Rivera and Maryn Cavalier for receiving Abstract Achievement Awards at the 2025 67th American Hematology Society Annual Meeting
10/2025 - Research news
"RNA-mediated condensation of TFE3 oncofusions facilitates transcriptional hub formation to promote translocation renal cell carcinoma" is published by Nature Communications and highlighted by Vital Record-news from Texas A&M Health
08/2025 - Group newsCongratulations to Kajol Harsh for winning first place in the poster competition at the Biomedical Engineering Research Symposium hosted by the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University
08/2025 - Groups news
Congratulations to Logan Rivera and Jimmy Wengler for winning a travel award to the Fusion conference: Endogenous Retrotransposable Elements & Human Diseases Conference (https://www.fusion-conferences.com/conference/187)
05/2025 - Group newsCongratulations to Ashley Suris for obtaining an ASH Graduate Hematology Award
04/2025 - group newsCongratulations to Jimmy Wengler and Logan Rivera for winning first and second place in the oral presentation competition at the Graduate Student Organization symposium
04/2025 - Group newsCongratulations to Logan Rivera for winning a travel award to attend the APSA/ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting
01/2025 - Group newsWelcome Hanlu Chen and Yi-Chin (Sophie) Chang as graduate students
01/2025 - Research newsCongratulations to Dr. Shaohai Fang for receiving an AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Maryn Cavalier for receiving an AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
2024
09/2024 - Research news
"Perturbing TET2 condensation promotes aberrant genome-wide DNA methylation and curtails leukaemia cell growth" is published by Nature Cell Biology.
"Maternal high-fat diet alters Tet-mediated epigenetic regulation during heart development" is published by iScience.
07/2024 - Group news
Congratulations to Maryn Cavalier and Ashley Suris for passing their qualifying exams
Welcome Zhanghanwen Qin from UH Computer Science and Andy Feng from UT Austin Biology as summer intern students
6/2024 - Research news
"Inhibiting the cGAS‐STING pathway in myeloid cells effectively improves myocardial healing related to TET2 deficiency‐induced DNA damage response" is published by Clinical and Translational Medicine
05/2024 - Group newsCongratulations to Dr. Yuhan Yang for her graduation ceremony.
05/2024 - Research news
"Enhanced glucose metabolism in Tet-deficient mouse embryonic stem cells" is published by Frontiers in Epigenetics and Epigenomics
04/2024 - Group newsWelcome Logan Rivera and Jimmy Wengler as graduate students.
04/2024 - Award news
Congratulations to Maryn Cavalier and Yuhan Yang for receiving the second place award for an oral presentation in the graduate student group at the Graduate student organization symposium.
Congratulations to Ashley Suris for receiving the third place award for an oral presentation in the graduate student group at the Graduate student organization symposium.
03/2024 - Group news
Yuhan Yang successfully passes her PhD defense.
2023
11/2023 - research news
"TET2 modulates spatial relocalization of heterochromatin in aged hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells" is published by Nature Aging and highlighted by the journal's news & views section here
09/2023 - research news
"Optogenetic engineering of STING signaling allows remote immunomodulation to enhance cancer immunotherapy" is published by Nature Communications
04/2023 - award news
Congratulations to Dr. Tingting Hong for receiving the BEST oral presentation in postdoc group in Graduate student organization symposium.
Congratulations to Maryn Cavalier for receiving the BEST oral presentation in graduate stduent group in Graduate student organization symposium.
Congratulations to Dr. Shaohai Fang for receiving the BEST poster presentation in postdoc group in Graduate student organization symposium.
01/2023 - grant news The Huang lab received one R35 grant from NLHBI and one R01 grant from NIDDK to study epigenetics in heart and mammalian cells.
01/2023 - research newsAn invited manuscript, entitled "Remoted control of cellular immunotherapy" was accepted by Nature Reviews Bioengineering.
01/2023 - research newsAn invited manuscript, entitled "Remoted control of cellular immunotherapy" was accepted by Nature Reviews Bioengineering.
2022
12/2022 - research newsA review article, entitled "Optogenetics for transcriptional programming and genetic engineering", from the Huang lab is highilghted as a covery artcile by Trends in Genetics.
10/2022 - award news
Congratulations to Dr. Shaohai Fang for receiving a CRPIT-sponsored Cancer Therapeutic Training Program (CTTP) Fellowship.
10/2022 - research news
A review article, entitled "Optophysiology: illuminating cell physiology with optogenetics", was featured as a cover article by Physiological Reviews.
09/2022 - award newsCongratulations to graduate student Yuhan Yang for receiving the graduate student travel award From IBT-TAMU and presented her research in Keystone symposium.
08/2022 - award news
Congratulations to Ashley Suris for receiving the First place winner of Hamill Summer Research Program.
05/2022 - grant newsA joint P01 grant to study clonal hematopoiesis with Huang lab as a team member was funed by NCI.
05/2022 - award news TAMEST is pleased to announce Yun Nancy Huang as the recipient of the inaugural Mary Beth Maddox Award and Lectureship. This award recognizes women scientists in Texas bringing new ideas and innovations to the fight against cancer.
