Rongtuan Lin
Associate Professor
- viral infection
- 5鈥檖辫辫搁狈础
- antiviral response
- RIG-I signaling
- TRAF7
Dr. Rongtuan Lin is a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, 91社区. He completed his BSc in Microbiology from Xiamen University in 1982, MSc in Bioengineering from Peking Union Medical College in 1987, Ph.D. in Microbiology from Concordia University in 1992 and his Post-doctoral Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Lady Davis Institute/91社区 in 1995. Dr. Lin joined Lady Davis Institute in April 1995 and joined 91社区 in September 1995. His research focus on the positive and negative regulation of antiviral innate immune response, determine the impact of virus-host cell interactions on the initiation and regulation of innate immune signaling, with the goal of developing novel therapy approaches for emerging viral infections. Dr. Lin has published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, with 21673 Google Scholar citations and H index=80.