Ai-Ling Lin

Ai-Ling Lin

PhD

Dr. Ai-Ling Lin is Professor and Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Radiology, Professor of Biological Sciences and Data Science & Informatics, and a Principal Investigator at the NextGen Precision Health Institute at the University of Missouri- Columbia. Her research mission is to mitigate dementia risk by identifying effective pharmacological and nutritional interventions using neuroimaging, gut microbiome and multi-omics analyses, and machine/deep learning methods. Originally from Taiwan, Dr. Lin completed her PhD and Postdoctoral training as a medical physicist from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Lin is a well-known expert on translational neuroimaging of brain vascular and metabolic function in aging, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI). She developed and applied magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, and positron emission tomography to test nutritional and pharmacologic approaches for protecting the brain from aging, TBI and AD. She is also an expert in artificial intelligence and has applied the methods to identify markers that are highly predictable for AD development and progression, and applied gut microbiome analyses to study gut-brain interaction underlying AD.