biology

Lynda Chin

Lynda Chin is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lynda Chin rather than just read about it. In short: Lynda Chin (born 1968) is a Chinese-American medical doctor. She is a board-certified dermatologist who was the founding department chair and professor of genomic medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, as well as scientific director of the MD Anderson Institute for Applied Cancer Science.

Key takeaways

Lynda Chin belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Lynda Chin to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Lynda Chin from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lynda Chin (born 1968) is a Chinese-American medical doctor. She is a board-certified dermatologist who was the founding department chair and professor of genomic medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, as well as scientific director of the MD Anderson Institute for Applied Cancer Science. In late 2012 she was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies.

Early life and education When she was 15, Chin and her family migrated from Guangzhou, China to the United States. She then attended Franklin D. Roosevelt High School where 1984, she was valedictorian of her class. In 1988, Chin graduated from Brown University, receiving magna cum laude honors for her B.S in neuroscience. She earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1993. Afterward, she began her postgraduate clinical and scientific training at New York–Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. From 1994 to 1997, Chin completed her research fellowship from Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she was also chief resident of dermatology.

Career

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Chin was a member of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute's Department of Medical Oncology from 1999 until joining the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2011.

Educator and researcher She was a professor of Dermatology at the Harvard Medical School. Chin was a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute, where she became the principal researcher of the Genome Data Analysis Center in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Chin was then elected scientific director of the Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. Chin was a co-leader of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center's Melanoma Program and the Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant for skin research.

AVEO Pharmaceuticals and Metamark Genetics In 2002, Chin co-founded a cancer biotechnology company called AVEO Pharmaceuticals. 5 years later, Chin founded Metamark Genetics, a cancer diagnostic company dedicated to the development of prognostic and predictive cancer tests.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Chin joined the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2011 as chair of first-ever Department of Genomic Medicine and scientific director of the Institute for Applied Cancer Science. She assists the scientific steering committee of the International Cancer Genome Consortium. In 2012, Chin was involved in controversial grant award by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). A Houston Chronicle investigation suggests that CPRIT her application for the approximately $18 million grant had been handled in a hasty manner designed to circumvent its own scientific reviewers. She is a recipient of the 2014 Lila and Murray Gruber Memorial Cancer Research Award.

Personal life Chin met her husband, Ronald A. DePinho, as a medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Chin and her husband have three children together.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lynda Chin

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lynda Chin claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lynda Chin before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lynda Chin ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lynda Chin

In research: Lynda Chin appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lynda Chin in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lynda Chin is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1968 births, 21st-century American women, Albert Einstein College of Medicine alumni, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lynda Chin outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Lynda Chin in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Lynda Chin means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Lynda Chin out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does Lynda Chin matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lynda Chin?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Lynda Chin.