Dr. Jean Chin is a Program Director at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She oversees a portfolio of research (R01) grants in the areas of membrane structure and function as well as lipid metabolism. In addition, she manages a collaborative "glue" grant on lipidomics and two center grants for the production and structural determination of membrane proteins. She is also deeply committed to the NIH AREA or Academic Research Enhancement Award program which supports biomedical research for faculty in primarily undergraduate and teaching-intensive institutions. Dr. Chin received her B.S. in Chemistry from Simmons College and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College. After postdoctoral and junior faculty positions at Harvard University and at the Center for Blood Research in Harvard Medical School, she continued her research as a Senior Staff Fellow at the NIH before joining NIGMS in 1994 as a Program Director.