Lynda Chin

Lynda Chin (born 1968) is a Chinese-American medical doctor. She is a board-certified dermatologist who was the founding department chair and professor of genomic medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, as well as scientific director of the MD Anderson Institute for Applied Cancer Science. In late 2012 she was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies.

Early life and education When she was 15, Chin and her family migrated from Guangzhou, China to the United States. She then attended Franklin D. Roosevelt High School where 1984, she was valedictorian of her class. In 1988, Chin graduated from Brown University, receiving magna cum laude honors for her B.S in neuroscience. She earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1993. Afterward, she began her postgraduate clinical and scientific training at New York–Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. From 1994 to 1997, Chin completed her research fellowship from Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she was also chief resident of dermatology.

Career

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Chin was a member of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute's Department of Medical Oncology from 1999 until joining the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2011.

In 2012, Chin was involved in controversial grant award by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). A Houston Chronicle investigation suggests that CPRIT her application for the approximately $18 million grant had been handled in a hasty manner designed to circumvent its own scientific reviewers.

She is a recipient of the 2014 Lila and Murray Gruber Memorial Cancer Research Award.

Personal life Chin met her husband, Ronald A. DePinho, as a medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Chin and her husband have three children together.