ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Jennie Lin, MD, MScTR, is an adult nephrologist with a research focus on the functional genomics of kidney and cardiometabolic disease. As a K08 investigator, she is building a research program at Northwestern University dedicated to the translation of human-based discoveries to new biological insights. Areas of study include (1) the role of RNA biology in mechanisms of lipoprotein metabolism and fibrosis and (2) functional interrogation of molecular mechanisms by which common genetic variants influence disease phenotype. Her group employs an integrative approach including kidney organoid and macrophage models derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, genetic interrogation with genome-editing technology, animal-based mechanistic studies, and single-cell RNA sequencing.