主持国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目1项，主持云南省基础研究计划面上项目1项， 参与国家自然科学基金面上项目1项。获云南省兴滇英才支持计划青年人才称号，并获得云南大学青年培优计划资助。
代表性论文：
(1) Mo Yuan; Ming-hui Zhao; Ying Tan; The anti-mCRP199-206 antibodies aggravate tubulointerstitial lessions in lupus nephritis, Clin Immunol, 2024, 268(110353).
(2) Mo Yuan; Ying Tan; Ming-hui Zhao; The Role of Anti-mCRP Autoantibodies in Lupus Nephritis, Kidney Dis (Basel), 2023, 9(5):317-325.
(3) Mo Yuan; Xiao-ling Liu; Ying Tan; Feng Yu; Ming-hui Zhao; Urinary Modified C-Reactive Protein is Closely Associated with Tubulointerstitial Lesions in Lupus Nephritis, Mediators Inflamm, 2023, 2023: 6107911.
(4) Xiao-tian Liu; Zhao-min Miao; Mo Yuan; Lin-lin Li; Ying Tan; Zhen Qu; Min Chen; Feng Yu; Glomerular mTORC1 activation was associated with podocytes to endothelial cells communication in lupus nephritis, Lupus Sci Med, 2023, 10(1): e000896.
(5) Leran Chen; Mo Yuan; Ying Tan; Ming-hui Zhao; Serum IgE anti-dsDNA autoantibodies in patients with proliferative lupus nephritis are associated with tubulointerstitial inflammation, Ren Fail, 2023, 45(2):2273981.
(6) Mo Yuan; Ying Tan; Jing-zi Li; Xiao-juan Yu; Hong Zhang; Ming-hui Zhao; Urinary sediments could differentiate endocapillary proliferative lupus nephritis and endocapillary proliferative IgA nephropathy, Int Immunopharmacol, 2021, 90: 107122.
(7) Mo Yuan; Ying Tan; Yan Wang; Su-xia Wang; Feng Yu; Ming-hui Zhao; The associations of endothelial and podocyte injury in proliferative lupus nephritis: from observational analysis to in vitro study, Lupus, 2019, 28(3): 347-358.
(8) Mo Yuan; Ying Tan; Yun Pang; Yong-zhe Li; Yan Song; Feng Yu; Ming-hui Zhao; Anti-pentraxin 3 auto-antibodies might be protective in lupus nephritis: a large cohort study, Ren Fail, 2017, 39(1):465-473.

病理学、临床病理学、高级病理学