Massachusetts General HospitalMedical OncologistHarvard Medical SchoolAssociate Professor of Medicine Jessica J. Lin, MD, is a medical oncologist specializing in the care of patients with thoracic malignancies at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. (more ...) Dr. Lin received her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Harvard College and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. After completing her residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and her fellowship in medical oncology at the Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare program, she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. She also has an active practice caring for patients in the Thoracic Oncology Program at the Henri and Belinda Termeer Center for Targeted Therapies. The primary focus of Dr. Lin’s research is to develop novel therapeutic and biomarker strategies for patients with advanced lung cancers. As a clinical investigator, she is deeply involved in the design and conduct of clinical trials evaluating novel therapeutic agents. Her translational research efforts are dedicated to the study of resistance mechanisms and exceptional responses to targeted therapies in molecularly defined subsets of lung cancer, with the goal of improving outcomes for patients living with the disease.
