Awards & funding
Selected awards
2024 NICHD Early Career Award (Competitive, internal funding opportunity for early-stage intramural researchers in basic, clinical, and translational sciences, aimed at promoting their careers and supporting proposals beneficial for their development.)
2023 NIH Stadtman Investigator semi-finalist (Top 25% of applicants)
2023 NICHD Early Career Award
2022 NICHD Early Career Award
2022 NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence 2023 (Authors of abstracts with the top 25% of scores are recognized as winners)
2021 NICHD Early Career Award
2020 NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence 2021
2018 Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin
2017 Jaime N. Delgado Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Medicinal Chemistry
2017 Graduate School Continuing Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin
2017 Professional Development Award at The University of Texas at Austin
2017 Pharmacy Graduate Students Association Travel Scholarship
2016 Graduate School Continuing Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin
2011 Zhangren Huang Special Scholarship at Wuhan University
2010 National Scholarship in China
Research funding
NICHD Early Career Award
Role: PI
Dates: $10,000 for Fiscal Year 2024
NICHD Early Career Award
Title: Identify the target site and evolve the counter-defense mechanism for Rpn phage defense proteins.
Role: PI
Dates: $25,000 for Fiscal Year 2023
NICHD Early Career Award
Title: Determine substrate specificity and DNA binding domain for a novel family of phage defense proteins.
Role: PI
Dates: $25,000 for Fiscal Year 2022
NICHD Early Career Award
Title: Molecular basis for the novel anti-phage Rpn proteins.
Role: PI
Dates: $25,000 for Fiscal Year 2021
NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence 2023
Dates: $1,500 for Fiscal Year 2023 towards conference travel or experimental expenses
NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence 2021
Dates: $1,500 for Fiscal Year 2021 towards conference travel or experimental expenses