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Michael Lin is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University, followed by a PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Harvard Medical School, where he studied signal transduction pathways under the mentorship of Michael Greenberg. He completed his MD training at UCLA and pursued postdoctoral research at UCSD in the lab of Roger Tsien. Lin's research focuses on translational synthetic biology, developing innovative technologies to investigate in vivo biology and enhance molecular medicine. His contributions include pioneering viral proteases and protease inhibitors to regulate protein functions, co-creating cofactor-independent photoswitchable proteins, and engineering fluorescent voltage-sensing proteins for probing neuronal circuit signaling. Lin's work has led to discoveries in non-invasive imaging using luciferase-based reporters and the engineering of synthetic signaling pathways to rewire cancer signaling for therapeutic purposes.
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