Jay Lin, Ph.D.

Jay Lin is the Senior Director External Innovation of Discovery, Product Development & Supply (DPDS) at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine. In this role, he has overall strategic and operational responsibility for the scouting and evaluation of external opportunities for DPDS across all biologic and synthetic drug modalities. As a bench scientist in his early career where he focused on research and development (R&D), Jay worked for three companies before joining JNJ and quickly progressed from head of biologics discovery into leading search and evaluation in business development where he travelled the world to look for the best and latest innovation. Jay acquired his Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Texas at Austin and bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University.