Lin He (born 1975) is an assistant professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, where she leads a lab focusing on identifying non-coding RNA which may play a role in tumorigenesis and tumor maintenance.[1]
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Lin He received a B.S. from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in 1997 and a Ph.D. from Stanford Medical School in 2003, working with Dr. Gregory S. Barsh. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 2003-2007 with Dr. Greg Hannon before joining the faculty at University of California, Berkeley in 2008.
Her research focuses on the role that non-coding microRNAs play in the development and maintenance of tumors. Specifically, she has found that mi-34, a specific microRNA family, plays an essential role in blocking tumor cells from replicating in lung cancers, among others. Her current research is focused on understanding the mechanism that mi-34 plays in tumor suppression. Her lab is also studying mir17-92, a microRNA cluster found in B-cell lymphomas, suggesting that mir17-92 is a potential human oncogene. Her work has appeared in Nature, Nature Genetics, and Science. [2][3]
Lin He received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2009.[4]