Min Yu, PhD

Principal investigator
min.yu@som.umaryland.edu

Research

Dr. Yu’s laboratory is interested in understanding the genetic, epigenetic and microenvironmental regulations of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that lead to initiation of cancer metastasis in various organs. The overarching goal is to be able to utilize CTCs from blood samples of cancer patients as a non-invasive “liquid biopsy” to inform the prognostic and therapeutic interventions for metastasis. Learn more

Selected Honors and Awards

• 2014    Career Transition Award (K22), National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• 2015    Marni Levine Memorial Research Career Development Award, STOP CANCER Foundation
• 2015    Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Faculty Fellowship Award, Baxter Foundation
• 2015    Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research, Pew Charitable Trusts
• 2015    “40 Under Forty” Award, Stony Brook University
• 2015    NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2), NIH
• 2017    Keynote speaker, The 4th Thomas Ashworth CTC and liquid biopsy symposium
• 2019    Breast Cancer Research Program Era of Hope Scholar Award, Department of Defense
• 2019    Keynote speaker, UCLA Molecular Biology Institute Retreat
• 2020    Keynote speaker, SelectBio Circulating Biomarkers Conference
• And more

Education

• Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014
• SUNY Stony Brook and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, PhD, 2006
• Peking University Health Science Center, China, Master in Neurology, 2000
• Shandong Medical University, China, MBBS (MD equivalent), 1997

Hobbies

Outside the lab, Min enjoys time with her family and friends, and loves traveling, eating, and running. She loves movies and often gets emotional 🙂 . If there are infinite time (I know, its an excuse), she would love to learn piano and guitar, get better at swimming, and train for an ironman race.