Professor, The University Of North Texas Health Science Center of FORT WORTH
Kunlin Jin is a Tenured Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in the United States. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in China, where he also served as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Hematology at Beijing University. In 1992, he came to the US and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. He then moved to the University of Pittsburgh from 1995 to 1996, where he was promoted to Instructor. In 1999, he accepted an offer to join the Buck Institute as an Assistant Scientist and has since been promoted to Professor. Dr. Jin has been a leader in several areas of investigation related to stroke, particularly focusing on the roles of adult neurogenesis and endogenous neuroprotective proteins in regulating the brain’s response to ischemic injury. More recently, his research has explored the effects of aging on these processes. He was the first to discover that brain injuries, including those caused by stroke and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, can stimulate stem cells to generate new neurons in rodents and humans. For many years, there has been hope that stem cells may provide a new avenue for the treatment of brain diseases. Dr. Jin’s discoveries have turned this hope into a reality.