About Lin He’s work
Based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lin He held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from February to May 1998.
Biography
Lin He graduated from Nanjing Railway Medical College (now Southeast University School of Medicine) in 1981, received a master’s degree from Nanjing Railway Medical College in 1986, and a PhD from the University of the West of Scotland in 1991. In 1996, he was appointed as the Director of the Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; in 1997, he was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; in 2000, he was appointed as a professor at the School of Life Science and Technology of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005; and became the Dean of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Fudan University in 2007-12, and in 2010, he was elected as a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the epigenetic mechanism of gene transcriptional regulation and the molecular mechanism of sex hormone-related gynecologic tumours.