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Lin Shengcai

Updated: 2025-07-30

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Lin Shengcai is a metabolic biologist and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as the Tan Kah Kee chair professor at the School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University. 

Lin received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Xiamen University in 1984 before obtaining his PhD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1991. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research from 1991 to 1995 at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego. He is also a recipient of China’s National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

In recent years, Lin has focused his research on the regulation of cellular metabolic homeostasis. His work explores how cells sense nutrients and energy, and investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of metabolic disorders. He has made a series of original contributions in these fields. 

Lin’s research on the molecular mechanisms of nutrient deprivation-induced autophagy was selected as one of China’s Top 10 Scientific Advances in 2012 by the Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2017, his work on the molecular mechanisms by which cells sense glucose levels and regulate metabolism was named one of China’s Top 10 Advances in Life Sciences by the China Association for Science and Technology.