Dr. Chenxiang Lin

Biography

Chenxiang Lin is a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University, where he has been a faculty member of the Nanobiology Institute since 2012. He studied chemistry at Peking University and completed his Ph.D. thesis on DNA nanotechnology at Arizona State University. Following his doctoral studies, Lin pursued postdoctoral training at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. He received the NIH Director's New Innovator Award in 2014, which recognizes outstanding scientists who are in the early stages of their careers and propose innovative research. Lin's research focuses on creating DNA nanostructures tailored for specific geometries and functionalities, drawing inspiration from cellular protein machinery to develop customizable biomimetic nanodevices. The objectives of his lab include advancing RNA/DNA nanotecnology for vaccine delivery and engineering DNA-based tools for investigating molecular events at single-molecule precision. He is dedicated to elucidating biological questions through structural DNA nanotechnology, single-molecule biophysics, and synthetic biology, which has the potential to produce functional synthetic nano-machines comparable to natural systems in complexity.

Research Interests