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The CBDG lab is led by the PI, Dr. Ya Cui, with around many highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students. Our lab develops and applies innovative computational and statistical methods to address fundamental questions in biomedical sciences using large-scale genomic and biobank data.
Recent News
May 1st, 2026
Good News
Our NIH R01 grant application on Tandem Repeat (Dr. Cui as Co-I) has been reviewed and got 7th percentile.
February 10th, 2026
New Paper (Nature Biomedical Engineering)
Congratulations! Our collaboration work has been accepted by Nature Biomedical Engineering (Dr. Cui and Dr. Ye as co-first authors). Our findings reveal APA-driven MHC-I suppression as a previously unrecognized mechanism of immune escape in immune-cold tumors and establish LNP-3'UTRCES as a versatile platform for post-transcriptional RNA engineering in cancer and other APA-associated diseases.
February 5th, 2026
Good News
Our NIH RC2 grant application (Dr. Cui as Co-I) has been reviewed and got impact score 22. We have received a Just-In-Time (JIT) request from NIH.
February 5th, 2026
Good News
Our NIH R01 grant application on APA (Dr. Cui as Co-I) has been reviewed and got 8th percentile. We have received a Just-In-Time (JIT) request from NIH.
February 5th, 2026
Good News
Our NIH grant application on tandem repeats (Dr. Cui as PI) has selected to advance to the second round! In this highly competitive funding mechanism, only applications scoring within the 13th percentile were invited to proceed to the second round.
February 4th, 2026
New Member
Welcome Dr. Xinzhi Hu! Dr. Hu is a new postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Cui's lab. She earned her B.S. in Biology at Tsinghua University and M.D. in Clinical Medicine at Peking Union Medical College, Division of Neurology. Dr. Hu's research focus on uncoving new genetics risk variants/genes in brain diosders, such as neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases.