Jimmy Lin

Chief Scientific Officer

Rare Genomics Institute

Jimmy Lin, MD, Ph.D., MHS is the Chief Scientific Officer at Freenome, where he is responsible for scientific strategy, research operations, and growing the company’s scientific team. Previously, Dr. Lin was the Chief Scientific Officer, Oncology at Natera (NASDAQ: NTRA), where he led the development of new diagnostic technologies for cancer. Dr. Lin is also a 2016 Senior TED Fellow and Founder & President of Rare Genomics Institute, the world's first platform to enable any community to leverage cutting- edge biotechnology to advance understanding of any rare disease. Previously, Dr. Lin led the ClinOmics program in the Genetics Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI). Before this, he led the computational analysis of the first-ever exome sequencing studies of cancer at Johns Hopkins and was a research instructor at Washington University in St. Louis. He has numerous publications in Science, Nature, Cell, Nature Genetics, and Nature Biotechnology, and has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, TIME, and the Huffington Post.

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