Dr. Jin had more than 27 years of distinguished career at the FDA. During his tenure at the agency, Dr. Jin has contributed extensively to statistical review issues and trial designs surrounding the regulatory approval of drugs for the treatment of neurological diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, migraine, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis, as well as rare diseases, such as ALS and DMD. Dr. Jin was the lead author in top theoretical statistics, biostatistics, and molecular genetics journals. He was also a winner in a worldwide innovation competition on clinical cardiology data processing (Predicting Acute Hypotensive Episodes).

Dr. Jin has extensive research experience in Alzheimer’s clinical trials. He has been an invited speaker and has authored publications on topics in Alzheimer’s disease endpoints and trial designs. He conducted FDA/CDER The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Summer Fellowship projects, built the Integrative Alzheimer’s Trial Database, FDA/CDER Regulatory Science and Review (RSR) Project and the results have been communicated at Accelerate Cures/Treatments for All Dementias (ACT-AD), Drug Information Association (DIA), and Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). Before joining the FDA, Dr. Jin was Assistant Professor at the Division of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Jin received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley, California.