Rongtuan Lin PhD

Rongtuan Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University and a Project Director of the Molecular Oncology Group at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. He has received his PhD from Concordia University and completed Post-doctoral training at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research.

He made important contributions in the fields of interferon signaling and innate antiviral immunity. He has a highly successful laboratory research program with 100 scientific publications, which have been cited more than 5,500 times. He was a recipient of a Chercheur-boursier Senior and Junior 2 from Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec. In 1996 and 1998, he has received the Milstein Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research.