Hui-Yi Lin

Dr. Hui-Yi Lin is a Tenured Full Professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in the School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science. She also serves as Director of the Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Core at the Center for Translational Viral Oncology (CTVO) and Co-Director of the Data Analytical Unit at the LSUHSC-NO Comprehensive Alcohol-HIV/AIDS Research Center (CARC). Her research focuses on developing statistical methods for genetic studies and omics data analysis, particularly SNP interactions in complex diseases like prostate cancer. She has secured multiple grants as PI, including a Department of Defense grant for prostate cancer genetic risk scores and NIH grants on antioxidant associations with HPV infections and gene-gene interactions in cancer aggressiveness.

Lin holds a PhD from Tulane University (2004) in Biostatistics, with prior degrees from the University of Michigan (MS, 2001) and National Taiwan University (MS in Biostatistics, 1996; BA in Health Behavior, 1994). She completed postdoctoral training at LSUHSC's Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center and School of Public Health (2004–2006).

Her research spans prostate cancer genomics, viral oncology, and public health interventions. Recent work includes identifying SNP interactions in prostate cancer aggressiveness and analyzing alcohol-SNP interactions. She has published ~180 peer-reviewed papers in journals like Nature Genetics, Scientific Reports, and Cancers.

Lin’s grants emphasize translational research: her current DoD grant (2023–2026) aims to develop miRNA-based polygenic risk scores. She collaborates with PRACTICAL Consortium and other multidisciplinary teams on projects like cytokine-alcohol interactions in HIV patients and racial disparities in prostate cancer.

Her service roles include co-chairing APHA’s Genomics Forum and serving on LSUHSC’s School of Public Health curriculum committee. She mentors trainees in biostatistics and public health through LSUHSC’s graduate programs.