Michael Z. Lin (born 1973) is a Taiwanese-American biochemist and bioengineer.
Lin graduated from Harvard University in 1994 with a degree in biochemical sciences summa cum laude.
[1] He subsequently trained as a PhD student studying neuronal signal transduction with Michael E. Greenberg at Harvard Medical School, graduating in 2002,[2] and obtained a M.D.
[3] Lin then performed postdoctoral research with Chemistry Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Y. Tsien at UCSD.
Lin's group at Stanford University has engineered proteins with novel functions for optogenetics, chemogenetics, and synthetic biology.