Xu Lin PhD

Dr. Lin received her medical degree in China PhD from Division of Nutritional Science, Cornell University and was trained as a postdoctoral fellow in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. She became a professor and a Principal Investigator in Institute for Nutritional Sciences since 2003 and served as the director for Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism in CAS (2008-16). Dr. Lin’s current research focuses include the effects of gene-gene, gene-environment factors (diet/lifestyle) and gene-phenotype, and their interaction on the development of obesity, related metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes; the predictive roles of omic-based biomarkers for metabolic diseases; nutrition intervention trials for individuals with metabolic disorders and also effects of genetic and non-genetic factors on vitamin D requirement. She led Chinese national genome-wide association study for type 2 diabetes and established a multiple omic-based prospective cohorts. Meanwhile she also conducted several nutrition intervention trials for high risk individuals. So far, she has published over 90 papers in international reputable journals including Circulation, J Am Coll Cardiol, Diabetes, Am J Clin Nutr and Nature and Nature Genetics. Dr. Lin currently sits on the editorial board of a number of international scientific journals and is the co-Editor-in-Chief for Nutrition & Metabolism