Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. from Concordia University and completed post-doctoral training at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Lin made important contributions in the fields of interferon signaling and innate antiviral immunity. He has a highly successful laboratory research program with 100 scientific publications, which have been cited more than 5,500 times. He was a recipient of a Chercheur-boursier senior and Junior 2 from Fonds de la recherche en sante du Quebec. In 1996 and 1998 he received the Milstein Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research.