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Congratulations to Galen for being selected as a Beckman Scholar
Sep. 21, 2025—Beckman Scholars Program helps stimulate, encourage, and support research activities by talented, full-time undergraduate students who are pursuing their studies at accredited four-year colleges and universities located in the United States of America. (Left to right: Prof. John Yang, Galen Wei, and Xinchun Ran). Note: Xinchun serves as the graduate student mentor for Galen.
Our new paper “Physics-based modeling in the new era of enzyme engineering” is online at Nature Computational Science
Jun. 1, 2025—https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-025-00788-8
Our new paper “Enhancing Cold Adaptation of Bidomain Amylases by High-Throughput Computational Engineering” is online at Angewandte Chemie
Jun. 1, 2025—https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202505991
Our new paper “SubTuner leverages physics-based modeling to complement AI in enzyme engineering toward non-native substrates” is online at Chem Catalysis
Jun. 1, 2025—https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2667109325000727
Congratulations to Qianzhen (QZ) Shao for winning the Edward Ferguson Jr. Graduate Award for Excellence in Research
Dec. 4, 2024—This award supports deserving graduate students at the Graduate School who demonstrate excellence in research. https://gradschool.vanderbilt.edu/student-resources/student-awards/
Congratulations to Qianzhen “QZ” Shao for winning the ACS Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Graduate Students!
Oct. 5, 2024—https://www.acscomp.org/awards/chemical-computing-group-excellence-award
Congratulations to Paul Jiang (former postdoc from the Yang lab) for his collaborative paper published on Cell!
Sep. 6, 2024—view the article here
Congratulations to Qianzhen (QZ) Shao for receiving the Organic Chemistry Horizon Prize: Perkin Prize in Physical Organic Chemistry!
Jun. 13, 2024—https://www.rsc.org/prizes-funding/prizes/2024-winners/molecular-strainers/#undefined