John Yin
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| Born | 1960 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Spouse(s) | Teresa Lau |
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| Education | BA Columbia College, BS Columbia Engineering PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | A Bio-mimetic Cadmium Adsorbent: Design, Synthesis and Characterization (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harvey Blanch |
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| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Doctoral students | Drew Endy |
| Website | yinlab.discovery.wisc.edu |
John Yin is a Chinese American chemical engineer and systems biologist. He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) during the Clinton administration. Yin is currently a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a founding faculty member of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Early life and education
Yin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1960.[1] At Columbia University, he earned bachelor of arts and science degrees from Columbia College in 1982 and Columbia Engineering in 1983, respectively.[2]
Yin completed his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 mentored by Harvey Blanch, and then conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, with Manfred Eigen.[1][3]
Career
Yin began his career in 1992 as an assistant professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, where he led the development of a visual method to track virus evolution in the lab, showing that beneficial mutations change how virus populations grow, spread and evolve.[4] In 1998, he joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a professor of chemical and biological engineering. There, Yin developed drugs that resist virus escape,[5] advanced new methods to characterize anti-viral drugs,[6] studied diverse behaviors of individual cells in response to virus infection, and researched the anti-viral functions of infection byproducts.[7] During the pandemic, Yin co-organized a National Science Foundation workshop on Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention [8] and contributed to the COVID Information Commons to facilitate knowledge-sharing and collaboration across various COVID research efforts.[9]
Yin has also studied the chemical origins of life, experimentally exploring how the environment can impact the emergence of molecular information,[10] how wet-dry cycling can promote the formation of biological polymers,[11] and how such processes might ultimately guide the development of new therapeutics for human health.[12]
Yin was one of five founding faculty of a University of Wisconsin-Madison hub for interdisciplinary research, the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.[13] There he advanced programs linking the humanities, the arts, and the sciences, including Virulent, a video game for kids to learn about how viruses hijack living cells,[14] the Emerging Interfaces Award, for graduate students bridging humanities and science,[15] and the Kohler Fellows Program, sponsoring collaborative projects in science-art fusion.[16]
Awards and Honors
Yin has been recognized by several awards and honors:
- National Science Foundation, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (1996), during the Clinton administration[17]
- Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, University of Wisconsin–Madison[18]
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1988-1990 (Germany)[19]
- National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award[20]
- Founding Five Faculty, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (2010)[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Yin Lab". yinlab.discovery.wisc.edu. 2025. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
- ↑ "John Yin". University of Wisconsin–Madison. Retrieved April 5, 2026.
- ↑ "John Yin". Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
- ↑ Holland, John J. (April 1, 1996). "Visualizing virus fitness gains". Nature Biotechnology. 14 (4): 431–432. doi:10.1038/nbt0496-431. PMID 9630913. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
- ↑ "Mimicking viruses may provide new way to defeat them". news.wisc.edu. March 29, 2004. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Engineers develop more than tenfold improvement in measuring virus infectivity". news.wisc.edu. November 15, 2006. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Research on viral junk, quicker drug testing could help outflank coronaviruses". news.wisc.edu. May 12, 2020. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "National Symposium on PRedicting Emergence of Virulent Entities by Novel Technologies (PREVENT)" (PDF). June 2021. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Covid Information Commons - John Yin". covidinfocommons.datascience.columbia.edu. 2021. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Experiments test how easy life itself might be". news.wisc.edu. April 5, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Drying process could be key step in the development of life". news.wisc.edu. December 21, 2022. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Could yesterday's Earth contain clues for making tomorrow's medicines?". news.wisc.edu. November 19, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Five big ideas to fill out Wisconsin Institute for Discovery portfolio". news.wisc.edu. June 30, 2009. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Morgridge Institute researchers release first educational game". news.wisc.edu. June 16, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Exploring interfaces between science, humanities". news.wisc.edu. February 23, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "John Yin". kohlerfellows.illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu. 7 September 2021. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "The Clinton White House". clintonwhitehouse6.archives.gov. December 16, 1996. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Vilas professors and investigators honored". news.wisc.edu. May 19, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Dr. John Yin". humboldt-foundation.de. January 9, 1988. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Dartmouth Alumni Magazine". dartmouthalumnimagazine.com. April 1997. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
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