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The Zhang Lab news archive:

2025:

• NMRC.GOV.SG (2025/6/25): Jun Liu received the prestigious OF-YIRG (Open Fund - Young Individual Research Grant) Award from the National Medical Research Council (NMRC), marking a significant milestone as his first independent, national-level research grant as a new investigator.
• CSI.NUS.EDU.SG (2025/3/19): Novel Sequence Searching Algorithm Significantly Boost the Power of AI-based Protein-Protein Complex Structure Prediction.

2024:

• SCIENCENET.CN (2024/12/2): Biao Zhang were awarded prestigious grant supports from both China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and Union Medical College Young Scholar Support Program .
• NSFC.GOV.CN (2024/10/10): Xi Zhang received support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scientists Fund) and Young Faculty Grant of Peking Union Medical College.
• PUMCH.CN (2024/8/5): Lin Wang was selected as prestigious Peking Union Medical College Young Scholar.
• AIII.GLOBAL (2024/7/9): I-TASSER-MTD, developed by Xiaogen Zhou, received the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Youth Outstanding Paper Nomination Award.

2023:

• NSCC.SG (2023/12/26): Zhang Lab received new computing resources from National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) for AI-based protein/RNA-folding and online gateway developments (11003846 and 11003862: 10.4 million CPU/GPU hours and 58 TBs storage).
• NUS.EDU.SG (2023/12/21): Novel AI-based approach for more accurate RNA 3D structure prediction .
• SCIENCENET.CN (2023/12/19): Weikang Gong were awarded prestigious grant supports from both China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and Union Medical College Young Scholar Support Program .
• CLARIVATE.COM (2023/11/20): Yang Zhang was selected as the 2023 Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
• SUBSTACK.COM (2023/11/16): Unravelling the RNA Riddle: DRfold unfolds!
• NSFC.GOV.CN (2023/10/28): Wei Zheng was selected by the prestigious Distinguished Overseas Young Talent Program.
• NSFC.GOV.CN (2023/10/28): Xiaogen Zhou was selected by the prestigious Distinguished Overseas Young Talent Program.
• NSFC.GOV.CN (2023/10/28): Chengxin Zhang was selected by the prestigious Distinguished Overseas Young Talent Program.
• HACKATHON (2023/7/30): A Zhang Lab team (Bingxue Du, Preetish Juneja, Jun Liu, Kexin Wei, and Yifan Wu) led by Yifan Wu won the 2023 Hackathon Prize.
• GROWKUDOS.COM (2023/01/15): Computationally designing novel protein folds.

2022:

• PREDICTIONCENTER.ORG (2022/12/15): An updated version of I-TASSER, D-I-TASSER, was ranked as the No. 1 server/predictor in the 15th CASP experiment, in all three categories of protein structure predictions including Multi-domain Targets, Single-domain Targets, and Multi-chain Targets .
• CLARIVATE.COM (2022/11/18): Yang Zhang was selected as the 2022 Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
• INF.NEWS (2022/05/13): Zhang Yang's team reports a new algorithm for protein structure construction from cryo-EM images .

2021:

• NATURE.COM (2021/11/23): Artificial intelligence powers protein-folding predictions.
• WEBofSCIENCE.COM (2021/11/16): Yang Zhang was selected as the 2021 Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
• XSEDE.ORG (2021/09/15): Zhang Lab received new computing resources from NSF XSEDE for protein-folding method developments and online gateways (MCB160101 and MCB160124: 42 million CPU/GPU hours and 30 TBs storage) .
• UMICH.EDU (2021/05/14): Jorden Thompson, an UROP Undergraduate Student of the Zhang Lab mentored by Dr. Xiaoqiang Huang, was granted the Blue Ribbon Award.
• UMICH.EDU (2021/05/14): Alyssa Anderson, an UROP Undergraduate Student of the Zhang Lab mentored by Dr. Xiaoqiang Huang, was granted the Blue Ribbon Award.
• UMICH.EDU (2021/05/14): Ava Pardo-Keegan, an UROP Undergraduate Student of the Zhang Lab mentored by Dr. Xiaogen Zhou, was granted the Blue Ribbon Award.

2020:

• PREDICTIONCENTER.ORG (2020/12/01): I-TASSER (as Zhang-Server) and QUARK from Zhang Lab ranked at the top two positions for automated 3D structure prediction in the 14th CASP experiment; this is the 8th time of I-TASSER ranked as the top server in CASP since 2006.
• National Science Foundation (2020/09/17): The Zhang Lab was granted new collaborative NSF award (with Andrews, Freddolino and Young) for modeling symbiotic microbial communities.
• XSEDE.ORG (2020/09/16): Zhang Lab received new computing resources from NSF XSEDE (MCB160101, MCB160124 with 24 million CPU/GPU hours) for protein-folding method developments and online gateways.
• Technology Networks (2020/09/12) COVID-19 Drug Discovery and Development – Why Diverse Strategies Are Critical.
• MEDICINE.UMICH.EDU (2020/07/18): Wallace Chan published new study on human GPCR virtual screening.
• National Institutes of Health (2020/07/14): The Zhang Lab received new NIH S10 grant supporting for high-performance computing (HPC) cluster construction for biomedical research.
• National Science Foundation (2020/05/08): The Zhang Lab was awarded new NSF grant for studying the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
• UMICH.EDU (2020/05/01): Yeojin (Angie) Jung, an UROP Undergraduate Student of the Zhang Lab, was granted the Blue Ribbon Award.
• ALTMETRIC.COM (2020/04/21): The Zhang Lab COVID-19 study was highlighted in multiple news articles.
• THECONVERSATION.COM (2020/04/11): Study shows pangolins may have passed new coronavirus from bats to humans.
• UCSD.EDU (2020/04/09): SDSC’s Comet Supercomputer, TSCC Available for COVID-19 Research.
• XSEDE.ORG (2020/04/06): Zhang Lab was awarded new computing resource grant from XSEDE (MCB200078) for designing novel protein therapeutics to treat the COVID-19 disease.
• National Institutes of Health (2020/04/05): Zhang Lab was granted the NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) to study protein tertiary and quaternary structure folding
• MED.UMICH.EDU (2020/01/31): The first release of genome-wide structure modeling of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus by combining I-TASSER with deep convolutional neural-network based contact-map prediction.

2019:

• ASBMB Today (2019/11/14): Zhang takes the lead in protein modeling.
• UMICH.EDU (2019/09/21): Chengxin Zhang was presented Outstanding Talk Award in 2019 Biological Chemistry Retreat.
• UMICH.EDU (2019/09/16): Eric Bell was awarded the Bioinformatics Acacdemic Achievement Award by DCMB University of Michigan.
• XSEDE.ORG (2019/09/13): Zhang Lab was awarded new computing resources (15 million CPU/GPU service units and 11 Terabyte storage) from XSEDE for developing new protein modeling algorithms and service systems.
• neXtprot (2019/09/05): I-TASSER/COFACTOR pipeline became the first third-party tool hosted by the neXtProt platform for human genome protein structure and function modeling.
• National Science Foundation (2019/08/01): The Zhang Lab was awarded new NSF grant to develop novel methods for multi-level protein function annotations
• UMICH.EDU (2019/07/24): Dr. Yang Zhang was selected as recipient of The 2020 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences
• MEDICINE.UMICH.EDU (2019/07/10): Robin Pearce received NCI PICTP fellowship to design novel proteins targeting cancer therapeutics
• UmichPioneerProgram.ORG (2019/05/16): Dr. Lin Zhang was awarded prestigious Fellowship by The Michigan Postdoctoral Pioneer Program
• UOFMHEALTH.ORG (2019/02/28): Designing New Proteins Could Lead to Cancer Treatment
• Genengnews.com (2019/02/04): Trends in Protein-Protein Interactions Research: Lessons from the Past and Current Directions.

2018:

• PREDICTIONCENTER.ORG (2018/11/30): TripletRes (developed by Yang Li and Chengxin Zhang) was ranked as the No. 1 predictor for protein contact-map prediction in the 13th community-wide CASP experiment
• PREDICTIONCENTER.ORG (2018/11/30): I-TASSER (as Zhang-Server) and QUARK from Zhang Lab were ranked as the top two servers for 3D structure prediction in the 13th CASP experiment; this is the 7th time of I-TASSER ranked as the top server in CASP since 2006.
• CLARIVATE.COM (2018/11/28): Yang Zhang was selected as the 2018 Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
• Hangzhou (2018/11/23): I-TASSER 2018 & First Structural Bioinformatics Worshop was held at Hangzhou, China, on November 23-25, 2018.
• XSEDE.ORG (2018/09/15): Zhang Lab received new computing resources (18M service units and 5 TB storage) from XSEDE for developing approaches to protein structure and function prediction.
• National Institutes of Health (2018/08/06): Zhang Lab was awarded new NIH R01 grant to annotate function of bacterial genomes
• Soochow University (2018/07/10): Lijun Quan was selected as Excellent Young Schalor by Soochow University Academic Committee.
• DCM&B Umich (2018/06/13): Chengxin Zhang was recommended by DCM&B to the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS) at the University of Michigan for the prestigious Excelence in Research Award.
• LSA Umich (2018/06/05): Daniel Evans' thesis on protein threading enhanced by protein design received the "Highest Honors" in BioPhysics

2017:

• Thomson Reuters (2017/11/17): Yang Zhang was selected as the 2017 Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
• Science Gateways Community Institute (2017/09/30): Chengxin Zhang gave SGCI Webinar to introduce I-TASSER Science Gateway.
• Tsinghua University (2017/08/10):
• National Institutes of Health (2017/08/01): Zhang Lab successfully renewed the NIH R01 award for studying protein folding and protein structure prediction, which is the third time of the lab to receive NIH support on this project since 2008.
• XSEDE.ORG (2017/02/02): SDSC’s ‘Comet’ Supercomputer Surpasses ‘10,000 Users’ Milestone .

2016:

• UM Biochemistry (2016/12/20): Wallace Chan was awarded the Biological Chemistry PhD Graduate Student Award (again!).
• Protein Structure Prediction Center (2016/12/08): I-TASSER (as Zhang-Server) and QUARK were ranked as the top two servers in CASP12 for automated protein structure predictions.
• National Institutes of Health (2016/10/15): Zhang Lab and the commericial partner (DNASTAR, INC) received new NIH SBIR award for collaborative study on GPCR structure and function.
• XSEDE (2016/09/30): Zhang Lab received new computer resources from XSEDE for protein structure and function studies.
• Thomson Reuters (2016/09/07): Yang Zhang was selected as the 2016 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.
• National Science Foundation (2016/06/27): Zhang Lab received new NSF award to develop online structure and function modeling systems.
• 1000plan.org (2016/03/14): Jianyi Yang was selected by the prestigious National Thousand Talent Program.
• Rackham Graduate School (2016/02/08): Brandon Govindarajoo was in Rackham Student Spotlight.
• National Institutes of Health (2016/01/01): Zhang Lab received new NIH R01 award for studying protein-protein interactions.

2015:

• Medicine at Michigan (2015/12/22): Proving Ground: Bioinformatics researcher reaches the top of his field.
• UM Biochemistry (2015/12/20): Wallace Chan was awarded the Biological Chemistry PhD Graduate Student Award.
• Thomson Reuters (2015/10/10): Yang Zhang was selected as the 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.
• Cell.com (2015/08/21): MasterClass—Dos, Don'ts, and How-Tos with Yang Zhang: Biology in 3D.
• Google Scholar (2015/08/10): Roy et al paper was ranked the No 1 most-cited article in Nature Protocols.
• GenomeWeb News (2015/01/08): DNAStar named sole commercial provider of UMich protein structure software.

2014:

• Protein Structure Prediction Center (2014/12/10): Assessment results of CASP11 experiment (-Zhang Lab ranked top at both Human And Server Sections).
• IEEE/ACM (2014/09/10): Jianyi Yang selected as Meritorious Reviewer for IEEE/ACM TCBB.
• GenomeWeb News (2014/06/13): DNAStar Receives $150K NIH Grant to Improve Software for Structural Biology Research
• Google Scholar (2014/01/08): The I-TASSER article ranked No 1 most-cited BMC Bioinformatics Article.

2013:

• UMHS Newsroom (2013/09/10): Yang Zhang awarded 2013 Dean's Basic Science Research Award.
• Madison, WI (2013/07/22): DNASTAR Releases NovaFold Structure Prediction Software.
• Wiley (2013/06/27): Xu and Zhang QUARK article ranked as Most Cited Articles in 2012 Proteins.
• Elsevier (2013/05/28): Zhang review article was selected as The Most Cited Current Opinion in Structural Biology Articles.
• UM North Campus Research Complex (2013/03/18): Young Researchers Thrive at NCRC.

2012:

• PREDICTIONCENTER.ORG (2020/12/01): I-TASSER (as Zhang-Server) and QUARK from Zhang Lab ranked at the top two positions for automated 3D structure prediction in the 14th CASP experiment; this is the 8th time of I-TASSER ranked as the top server in CASP since 2006.
• Protein Structure Prediction Center (2012/12/12): Assessment results of CASP10 (-Zhang Lab ranked at top in both Human and Server Sections).

2011:

• Structure (Cell Press) (2011/12/07): Progress at Last.
• BioTechniques News (2011/02/01): The protein structure prophet.
• GenomeWeb News (2011/01/07): U of Michigan Informatics Team Rises to the Top in CASP 9.
• UMHS Newsroom (2011/01/05): U-M lab takes top honors in worldwide protein prediction competition.

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