Haifan Lin

Biography

 Haifan Lin, Ph.D. is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology, and Professor of Genetics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, as well as the founding director of Yale Stem Cell Center at Yale University. He is the founding dean (Adjunct) of School of Life Science and Technology at Shanghai Tech University. Dr. Lin’s work focuses on the self-renewing mechanism of stem cells, using Drosophila germline stem cells, mouse germline and embryonic stem cells, human embryonic stem cells, and Hydra stem cells as models. He also studies germline development and stem cell-related cancers. Dr. Lin has made key contributions to the demonstration of stem cell asymmetric division, the proof of the stem cell niche theory. He is also a discoverer of a novel class of non-coding small RNAs called PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), which was hailed by the Science Magazine as one of the Ten Scientific Breakthroughs in 2006. Dr. Lin received many awards and honors, including the American Society of Andrology Lecturer Award (2008), the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award (2010), the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (2010), the NIH MERIT Award (2012)

Research Interest

 Cell Biology, Genetics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Reproductive Sciences, Stem Cells, Pharmacology