# Neil Lin

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
BIOENGINEERING

Email: neillin@g.ucla.edu
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Websites

- Lin Lab - Living Soft Material Engineering

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Lin’s research looks at developing 3D-printed tissues that mimic the geometric structure, mechanical properties, and functionality of human organs. This research could lead to detailed and complex model tissues for drug screening, and ultimately, artificial organs that could be transplanted into humans.

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

- Engineering of soft and living materials
- Structure, dynamics, and mechanics of biomaterials
- Image-based force measurements in soft matter
- Quantitative imaging for material characterizations

##### NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

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##### IN THE NEWS

- Young Investigator Award - Class of 2022 | PCF, October 2022
- UCLA Researchers Develop New, Noninvasive AI Method to Inspect Live Cells and Gain Critical Data, March 2021

##### EDUCATION

- Ph.D., Cornell University, 2016
- M.S., Cornell University, 2013
- B.S., National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2008

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- Young Investigator Award, Prostate Cancer Foundation (2022)
- Maximizing Investigators' Research Award R35, NIH NIGMS (2022)
- Hellman Fellowship, UCLA (2022)
- Noble Family Innovation Award, UCLA CNSI (2022-2023)
- BSCRC-CNSI Nanomedicine Innovation Planning Award (2020-2021)
- UCLA SPORE Prostate Cancer Research Development Award (2020)
- NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship (F-32) (2018 - 2019)
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2018)
- ACS Colloid Langmuir Thesis Presentation Award, 2nd Prize (2016)
- Poster Award, Society of Rheology Annual Meeting, Final (2014)
- Studying Abroad Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2013)
- Douglas Fitchen Memorial Award, Cornell University (2013)