News

April 10, 2026

Jean wins the RMUS essay contest, and Mustafa gets 2nd place in the abstract contest!

April 10, 2026

The Yang Lab presents at the Rocky Mountain Urologic Society Meeting.

April 1, 2026

Kengo Kawase joins the lab!

Kengo is a urologist from Nagoya City University, Japan.

March 18, 2026

Lin Wang joins the lab!

Lin is a staff scientist coming from The Mayo Clinic where she worked on AAV-based gene therapy with Dr. Michael Barry.

March 2, 2026

Fernanda “Fer” joins the lab!

Fernanda is a postdoctoral researcher who completed an MD PhD at Tecnologico de Monterrey. She previously led several projects developing medical devices in animal models.

February 27, 2026

Mustafa wins Best Poster at the Research Outcomes in Childrens Surgery (ROCS) Symposium!

January 10, 2026

Dumpling making at the Collins-Yang lab party

People gathered around a dining table making sushi, with various ingredients and sushi rolls on trays and plates, in a cozy home setting with warm lighting and family members engaged in the activity.

January 5, 2026

Mustafa and Jean perform their first independent nephrectomy!

December 8, 2025

Katie is selected to give an oral presentation for her CRISPR project at the Department of Surgery Research Symposium.

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November 10, 2025

Natalie’s manuscript “Endoscopically visible Randall’s plaques are an independent predictor of future stone events” is accepted for publication in Urolithiasis.

October 13, 2025

The Yang Lab presents posters at the Department of Surgery Retreat.

Two people discussing a science research poster titled 'Efficient Detergent-Enabled Delivery of Nanoparticles into the Alveolar' at a scientific conference at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, with other attendees and posters in the background.
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September 15, 2025

The Yang Lab exhibits the “Kidney In A Bag” at the CU Innovation Showcase.

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September 11, 2025

Heiko gives the “State of the Art” Plenary lecture at the World Congress of Endourology and Technology in Phoenix, AZ.

August 15, 2025

Heiko presents “The FAST approach to endoscopic stone surgery” and co-chairs the endourology panel with his former mentor J. Stuart Wolf at the Integrating Functional and Reconstruction Urology and Endourology conference in Denver, CO.

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August 15, 2025

Melissa and Katie finish their summer rotations.

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August 3, 2025

Jean gives a podium presentation on “Initial Experience in a Porcine Autotransplantation Model to Validate ex vivo Kidney Perfusion” at the World Transplant Congress in San Francisco, CA.

A woman standing at a podium presenting at the WTC 2025 World Transplant Congress in San Francisco, USA, August 2-6, with two men seated at a table listening.

April 11, 2025

The Yang Lab presents posters at the Rocky Mountain Urologic Society conference in Denver, CO. Natalie’s poster on the ex vivo perfusion circuit design wins 2nd place.

November 19, 2024

Heiko gives a visiting professor lecture at Nagoya University, Japan.

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October 11, 2024

The Yang Lab moves into their new home in Research Complex 2 at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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