Yu Xuan Lin

Yu Xuan was born in China and moved to the United States with her family at the age of 7. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and completed her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego in 2021. She then spent the next two years studying the structural and cell biology of Parkinson's Disease in the lab of Dr. Andres Leschziner using Cryo-Electron Microscopy. For her MD-PhD, Yu Xuan is interested in studying the intersection of disease mechanisms, therapy development, and systems biology using a variety of imaging tools (but she can be swayed in a different direction by cool science along the way).