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Congratulations to Anika and Evan on earning University Honors!

May 2026: Congratulations to Anika and Evan on earning University Honors (Bronze Tablet Scholars）

Congratulations to Evan for winning the 2026 Outstanding Biochemistry Student award!

May 2026: Congratulations to Evan for winning the 2026 Outstanding Biochemistry Student award!

Congratulations to Anika on earning high distinction for research in MCB Honors!

April 2026: Congratulations to Anika on earning high distinction for research in MCB Honors!

Congratulations to Evan on earning highest distinction for research in Biochemistry!

April 2026: Congratulations to Evan on earning highest distinction for research in Biochemistry!

Congratulations to Vidhi for winning a 2026 MCB SURF Award!

March 2026: Congratulations to Vidhi for winning the prestigious William T. and Lynn Jackson Summer Research Fellowship!

Congratulations to Shriyadita for winning a 2026 MCB SURF award!

March 2026: Congratulations to Shriyadita for winning the 2026 School of MCB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship award!

Congratulations to Wenjie on receiving a grad travel award for the SSR conference!

February 2026: Congratulations to Wenjie on receiving a grad travel award for the SSR (Society for the Study of Reproduction 2026) conference presentation!

Congratulations to Shuangqi on winning the 2025 CB Retreat Poster Award!

October 2025: Congratulations to Shuangqi on winning the 2025 Comparative Biosciences Retreat Poster Award!

Congratulations to Wenjie on earning the Mitul Patel Foundation GRA!

October 2025: Congratulations to Wenjie on being awarded the Mitul Patel Fellowship.

Congrats to Day on winning 3rd place for 2025 Best Ignite Award!

August 2025: Congratulations to Day on winning 3rd place for outstanding scientific contribution and achievement in the presentation competition at the the Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (KSBMB) & K-BioX Global Next Generation Biology Camp 2025.

Congratulations to Shuangqi on winning the Victor A. Drill Poster Award!

May 2025: Congratulations to Shuangqi on winning best poster presentation and the 2025 Midwest Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology (MRC/SOT) Victor A. Drill Award!

A new paper published on eLife!

April 2025: Ning, Huanyu Qiao published Cell-cycle and Age-Related Modulations in Mouse Chromosome Stiffness.

Congratulations to 5 undergrads Anika, Vidhi, Evan, Day, and Ryan for winning 2025 MCB SURF awards!

March 2025: Congratulations to all 5 of our undergrads Anika, Vidhi, Evan, Day, and Ryan Wang for winning 2025 MCB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships! Anika and Evan won the prestigious Jenner Family Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Faaiza accepted an offer from Ohio State!

March 2025: Great news! Faaiza accepted an offer from Ohio State’s Immunology and Immunotherapeutics program and received a first-year fellowship from the College of Medicine!

Congratulations to Angela on earning the MCB outstanding research presentation award!

November 2024: Congratulations to Angela on earning the School of MCB Outstanding Research Presentation Award at the 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Congratulations to Shuangqi on winning the best poster presentation!

November 2024: Congratulations to Shuangqi on winning the best poster presentation at the 2024 CB retreat!

Congratulations on CCIL Seed Grant!

August 2024: Qiao Lab received Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Seed Grant Funding from the Cancer Center at Illinois. https://cancer.illinois.edu/groundbreaking-dna-repair-research-receives-cancer-center-at-illinois-seed-grant/

Book chapter was published!

July 2024: Reza, Qinan, Shuangqi, Huanyu Qiao published How Do Environmental Toxicants Affect Oocyte Maturation Via Oxidative Stress?. The chapter was collected in the book series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology (ADVSANAT,volume 238).