Yiling Lu is a High Senior Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research focuses on cancer biology, molecular oncology, and cancer genomics, with particular emphasis on oncogene signaling, tumor cell survival mechanisms, and epigenetic regulation in cancer. Her recent work has identified how cancer cells evade ferroptosis induced by immune cells via fatty acid binding proteins, and she has contributed to developing DrBioRight 2.0, an LLM-powered bioinformatics chatbot for large-scale cancer functional proteomics analysis. She has also published on transcription factor BCL11A structure, histone methyltransferases MLL3/MLL4 in platelet production, and lipid homeostasis vulnerabilities in NRAS-mutant melanoma. Her research integrates structural biology, epigenetics, and functional genomics to advance understanding of cancer pathogenesis and therapeutic resistance.
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