UCI to Get Its New Biology Dean Oct. 1
Shin Lin, a biophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, begins his new job as biology dean at UC Irvine on Oct. 1.
The move will be a homecoming for a self-professed “product of California’s public system for higher education.”
Final confirmation for Lin is expected from the University of California system next week.
Lin, 52, earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Davis in 1965, a master’s from San Diego State University in 1967 and a doctorate from UCLA in 1971. He served as a postdoctoral fellow at UC San Francisco in 1971-74.
“It’s wonderful to be returning to California, and I am especially excited by the prospect of assuming leadership of UCI’s School of Biological Sciences and building upon its already significant achievements,” Lin said in a prepared statement.
In 1974, Lin began teaching biophysics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
“I was particularly impressed by his ability to recruit both the best and brightest students and faculty as well as his success at building research partnerships with the university, governmental agencies and private industry,” UCI Chancellor Laurel L. Wilkening said.
Combining molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics, Lin’s studies focus on the basic mechanisms of animal cells and tissues, and he is an authority on drugs that affect cellular movement.
