Meet the Team

Dr. Lin has over 20 years of life sciences and technology industry experience. He spent significant time at Plexxikon, where most recently he served as Chief Operating Officer. He joined Plexxikon in 2005 and held positions of increasing responsibility in business development and operations management. Dr. Lin led much of the IND filing effort for vemurafenib/Zelboraf® and was a principal contributor to the drug’s early development. He was part of Plexxikon’s deal team responsible for three licensing deals valued collectively at over $2 billion. Prior to Plexxikon, Dr. Lin was an assistant to the CEO of Dendreon Corporation and served as a consultant to multiple pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies including Medtronic, Othera Pharmaceuticals and Acuity Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Lin was also formerly Vice President of Business Development for eTechtransfer, a biotechnology licensing and marketplace start-up that he co-founded. Previously, Dr. Lin was an operations engineer managing large scale manufacturing operations across multiple industries for BASF AG and Shell Oil Company. Dr. Lin received dual M.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School of Business. Before graduate school, he earned a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where he graduated summa cum laude.