The School of Pharmacy is proud to announce that Yvonne Lin ’02, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, will receive the Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award at the upcoming 52nd Annual UW Awards of Excellence presentation.
Award recipients will be honored from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on June 9 at the Meany Hall for Performing Arts. The UW community and the general public are welcome to attend. For more information about the celebration, use the link here.
Dr. Lin received her BA in Biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley, her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Washington, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Her research interests include natural product-drug interactions, regulation of drug metabolizing enzymes in children and in pregnancy, and using metabolomics to discover endogenous biomarkers of drug metabolism and transport.
Earlier this year, Dr. Lin received one of four School of Pharmacy Faculty Innovation Awards for her research proposal titled, Assessing the Drug Interaction Potential of Postbiotic Supplementation. These awards are given to innovative faculty projects with high scientific merit. Use this link to read more about the Faculty Innovation Award.