Professor Cindy (Shin-Yi) Lin
PhD MEngSci(Biomedical) BE(EngSci)
The Kam Ling Barbara Lo Chair in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Central Clinical School / Brain and Mind Centre
Member of the Brain and Mind Centre
Telephone | +61 291144035 |
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Biographical details
Professor Cindy (Shin-Yi) Lin is the inaugural Kam Ling Barbara Lo Chair in Neurodegenerative Disorders at the University of Sydney, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health and member of the Brain and Mind Centre. This chair was created by the successful high-impact philanthropic support to the University of Sydney.
Professor Lin has qualifications in Biomedical Engineering, obtaining a Bachelor degree in Engineering Science, Auckland University; Master of Engineering Science from the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Professor Lin has further developed her career from Engineering to the clinical realm. She has completed her PhD in Neurosciences under faculty of Medicine at University of New South Wales. She was awarded the NHMRC CJ Martin travelling Fellowship to study postdoctoral at the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, University College London, UK.
Professor Lin specializes in neurophysiological techniques, particularly threshold tracking and adapting these novel techniques to the clinical setting. She is heavily involved in the development of clinical biomarkers that can be used in the diagnosis of patients with neurological disease and in clinical trials of new therapies across a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders. Professor Lin is actively involved in international multidisciplinary research, directed to the clinical translation of basic science physiology through to the interpretation and treatment of patients with neurological disease. Professor Lin has experiences across a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases, not just in one single disease, her work covers the full age spectrum from Pediatrics to ageing population. She has published her work in the highest-impact international multidisciplinary journals incorporating the fields of Clinical Neurology, Oncology and Endocrinology.
Professor Lin has established national and international recognition in research grants, publications, and collaborations. Within Australia, with the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Neurology, Oncology at Prince of Wales Hospital. Professor Lin’s international standing is reflected in her international collaborations include the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurology (IoN), University College London (UCL), UK, the Department of Neurology, Department of Neurology Chiba University Hospital, Japan, and National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), Taipei Medical University (TMU) and Wang Fang Hospital, Taiwan. Professor Lin has been involved in all aspects of neurodegenerative diseases throughout her research career - whether the degeneration of nerve cells or brain regions is caused by chemotherapy, inflammatory conditions, diabetes, genetic mutations or some other insults.
Her role is to ‘bridge the gap’ between multidisciplinary research across the clinical neurosciences from children, adolescents to the aging population, with her unique background in biomedical engineering combined with training in neuroscience and clinical research, to improve research outcomes and facilitate the translation of research innovations directly into clinical practice for the benefit of patients and the community and to translate ‘bench to bedside’ research into tangible outcomes nationally and internationally.
Research interests
- Assessment of pathophysiology and development in Paediatric genetic mutation/neuropathies (Spinal Muscular Atrophy SMA)
- Diabetic neuropathies (Type 1 and Type 2)
- Immune-mediated inflammatory neuropathies (AIDP, CIDP, MMN)
- Genetic Neuropathies (Porphyria, Erythromelalgia, Farbry’s Diseases)
- Clinical neurophysiology & nerve excitability
- Clinical Translation/Biomarkers
- Neurodegeneration (MND, SMA)
Teaching and supervision
Professor Lin has a strong interest in neuroscience/medicine education, lectured to both Medical and Medical Science students in Muscle and Motor Control, Fundamentals of Neuroscience and Neuromuscular rehabilitation, Ageing and Ending. Professor Lin has also trained a number of neurologists and neuroscientists on nerve excitability techniques at various institutes worldwide.
Current projects
- Novel Strategies for the management of neuromuscular disease: The pathway from diagnosis to treatment - Dr Didu Sanduni Thamarasa, Kariyawasam (PhD candidate, paediatric Neurologist, Sydney Children’s Hospital)
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The assessment of pathophysiology and developing outcome measures in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)/paediatric neuropathies – Associate Professor/Dr Michelle Farrar
Associations
CSL BEHRING CONSULTANT
- Research on immunotherapy: Intraveneous immunoglobulin (IVIg) has attracted CSL Behring to the Interlaken leadership award(2012)
- Successfully established a consultancy with CSL Behring for future trials
Professor Lin is a Web Editor for the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry JNNP
Prof Lin has led a number of clinical excitability workshops to further the education and implementation of axonal excitability techniques internationally. In 2009 she was invited to host the inaugural Excitability Workshop at the Institute of Neurology, UCL, U.K., followed in 2010 by the Threshold Tracking Workshop at the International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kobe, Japan on behalf of the International Federation of Clinical Neurology. Further, she was involved in the Upper Limb in Spinal Cord Injury Workshop, at the 7th World Congress Neurorehabilitation in Melbourne 2012.
Themes
Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease; Healthy Ageing; Neurosciences and Mental Health
Keywords
Child health; Neuromuscular diseases; Diabetic neuropathy; Neurophysiology; Neurosciences
Clinical Specialty
Neurology
International links
(Chiba Hospital, Chiba University, Chiba)
Department of Neurology |
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(National Taiwan University & Hospital, Taipei)
Department of Neurology |
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(Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei)
Department of Neurology |
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(Institute of Neurology, University College London (UCL))
The Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders |
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