Hening Lin

Background

About Hening Lin

Dr. Hening Lin was born in China and obtained his B.S. in Chemistry in 1998 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He obtained his PhD degree in 2003 from Columbia University under the guidance of Dr. Virginia Cornish. From 2003-2006, he was a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Christopher Walsh’s lab at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University as an assistant professor in 2006. He was promoted to associate professor in 2012 and professor in 2013. His lab works at the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine. The research in his group focuses on NAD+-consuming enzymes that have important biological functions and human disease relevance, including poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases and sirtuins. His lab also works on the biosynthesis of diphthamide, the target of diphtheria toxin. His work is recognized by a Dreyfus New Faculty Award in 2006, the CAPA Distinguished Junior Faculty Award in 2011, the 2014 ACS Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, and the 2016 OKeanos-CAPA Senior Investigator Award. He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2015.