Our team

Kevin Qiu, M.D. Candidate, University of Virginia School of Medicine '26

Kevin is a first-year medical student at UVA. Prior to joining UVA he was a Research Technologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where he examined genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenetic datasets from cancers. Kevin was a recipient of the Summer Undergraduate Research Grant during his undergraduate studies at  Northwestern University. In his free time from clinical studies, he volunteers in the Trinh lab and will be joining us through the Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP). In our lab, Kevin helps with transcriptomic, epigenetic, and clinical data analyses as well as developing his own bioinformatic research project. Kevin is also a webmaster of the University of Virginia SOM Mulholland Society.

Accomplishments during training in Trinh lab

• 2025. Co-author on research manuscript on Bioarchive

• 2025. Co-author on an abstract accepted for oral presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting

• 2024. Co-author on American Society of Hematology annual conference abstract

• 2024.  First-author research paper published in Epigenetics & Chromatin and featured by ScienceCast 

• 2024. Award winner, First-author research poster competition, Inaugural Research Computing Exhibition, UVA Research Computing Day  

• 2024. First-author research poster presentation, ColdSpring Harbour conference on Systems Biology: Global regulation of gene expression.

• 2024.  First-author research poster presentation, Pathology Research Day

• 2023. Medical Student Research Symposium with first-author poster presentation titled: "Controlling the Controller: Identification of Novel Enhancers of the Key Hematopoietic TF PU.1"