Biography

Dr. Lin Jin received her Bachelor degree in Clinical Medicine and Master of Science at Lanzhou University in Lanzhou, China. She finished her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2009 at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. She completed her fellowship in cancer biology at Vanderbilt in Tennessee in 2012 and another fellowship in cancer biology at University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2013. She then joined UAB's Department of Dermatology as a researcher and became an Assistant Professor in 2021. She is interested in skin development and repair, stem cell therapy for skin regeneration, chronic inflammatory skin disease, and basal and squamous cell skin cancers.

Societies

Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for Cancer Research
Ad-hoc-reviewer for Cancer Letters, Anti-Cancer Drugs, Medicine, Experimental and Molecular Pathology, Toxicology Research, and Cancer Gene Therapy. 

Education & Training

Graduate School
PH.D. Level Non US Degree Equiv, Biomedical/Medical Engineering
Jinan University, 2009

Master of Science, Biochemistry/ Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Lanzhou University, 2005

Medical School
Doctor of Medicine, Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science and Allied Professions/ Other
Lanzhou University, 2002

Contact Information

Barry Bailey
Program Director
Phone: (205) 934-5188
Email: babailey@uabmc.edu