Li Lin

Li Lin (; born 1961) is a Chinese biochemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as director of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences beginning in 2013, and was director of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB) from 2004 to 2009. He was also a member of the 12th National People's Congress. His research focus is the Wnt signaling pathway.

Biography Li Lin was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in 1961. After graduating from Nanjing University in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry, he entered the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry to study under Professor Xu Genjun, an enzyme specialist, and earned his Ph.D. in 1989. At the time, scientific research in China was poorly funded, and his research was limited by primitive facilities and supplies. He often went to slaughterhouses and wet markets himself to buy chicken and pig livers for his experiments. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He was also elected as a member of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the 12th National People's Congress.

Personal life Li is married to Zhang Qin , his classmate at Nanjing University. He considers Wang Yinglai, the founding director of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, his role model.