Jue Lin

I am a research biochemist in Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Blackburn won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

I obtained my Ph. D. from Cornell University in the field of molecular and cell biology. In the last 20 years, my research in the Blackburn lab focuses on telomere biology, ranging from basic research on yeast and mammalian tissues to clinical studies. As the director of the Telomere Core in Dr. Blackburn’s laboratory, my team has collaborated with over 100 researchers by performing telomere measurements on over 150,000 human specimens in clinical and population studies resulting in over 140 publications.