Meet the 2026 Awardee: Yue Feng, MBBS, PhD
Yue Feng, MBBS, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. She received her medical training from Harbin Medical University and earned her PhD in Occupational and Environmental Health from the School of Public Health at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on cancer molecular epidemiology and environmental health, with particular interests in environmental exposures, multi-omics biomarkers, and respiratory outcomes.
Dr. Feng has extensive experience in epidemiologic study design, biomarker-based exposure assessment, laboratory assays, statistical programming, and the integration of questionnaire, clinical, environmental, and omics data. Her work examines how environmental and lifestyle factors influence malignant and benign lung diseases, including lung cancer risk, chronic respiratory outcomes, respiratory quality of life, and early molecular changes related to environmental exposures. She has contributed to studies using large observational cohorts, molecular epidemiologic approaches, and multi-omics platforms to better understand disease etiology and early biological responses.
Her current research investigates the health effects of wildfire smoke and residential wood smoke exposure, with a focus on proteomic signatures, lung imaging measures, and adverse respiratory outcomes. At the University of New Mexico, she collaborates with clinicians, biostatisticians, and laboratory scientists to translate complex environmental and molecular data into evidence relevant to lung health. Her long-term interests include identifying exposure-related molecular pathways and biomarkers that may improve risk assessment, prevention, and early detection of environmentally related lung diseases.
Description:
This award recognizes a trainee (graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, clinical trainee) or early stage investigator (within 10 years of completing their terminal research degree and NOT still considered a student or presently in pre- or post-doctoral training program) for their abstract at the ATS International Conference related to TID. Awardees will be presented with a framed certificate at the ATS International Conference.
Eligibility
- Nominees must be an ATS member
- Previous awardees are not eligible for the same award
- Abstracts must be submitted for review by the EOPH Assembly
Judging Criteria
- Judging will be conducted by the EOPH program committee including TID delegates.
- The award will be selected based on the highest ranking abstract related to the work of TID that is submitted to an EOPH abstract category
- TID-related abstracts with trainee or early stage presenting authors that have scored highly by the EOPH program committee will be subsequently reviewed by the TID Executive Committee.
- The TID Executive Committee will score these finalist abstracts based on relevance to TID topics, quality of writing, novelty or importance, and TID member status of the presenting author.