Dr. Yu has participated in the National Program on Key Basic Research Project（973 Program）and“Eleventh Five-Year Plan”National Key Technology R＆D Program. She has published more than 10 papers in journals. She received a number of awards, including “ Outstanding Paper Award” presented by the 8th annual academic conference for PH.D candidates in 2010, and ”Outstanding Paper Award” by the first Chinese Medicine doctor paper in 2010; and “ The first prize of the Science and Technology Award” by the China Association of Chinese Medicine（2010 year）in 2011.