Victor Jin

Victor Jin, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert on research in metabolism and cancer. A tenured professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Rutgers University- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Dr. Jin also holds joint faculty memberships at the Center for Lipid Research at Rutgers University, the Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Dr. Jin made seminal discoveries on dissecting the role of autophagy in cancer, adipose biology, and metabolic regulation. Dr. Jin’s research has been funded by major grants from the National Institute on Aging (NIH/NIA), National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI), Department of Defense (DOD), and American Cancer Society (ACS). He has served on many scientific review panels, including NIH and the American Cancer Society. Dr. Jin has published important discoveries in various high-impact scientific journals, including Nature Medicine, Genes and Development, Cancer Cell, PNAS, Blood. Dr. Jin is the lead inventor of more than eight important patents. Before joining the faculty of Rutgers University, Dr. Jin received B.S. in Biological Sciences at Tsinghua University, Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Cornell University Weill Medical College/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and completed postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University. Dr. Jin is the founder of Mito Biopharma LLC and acting CSO.