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Job Title Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

One Children's Hospital Drive
4401 Penn Ave., Suite Floor 9

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-5930 Phone

412-692-5565 Fax

Email philana.lin@chp.edu

Medical School:	1996 Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM), Rootstown, OH 2004 Master's in Clinical Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Residency:	2000 University of Chicago Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL
Fellowship:	Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA

Neu/Bayer Research Grant, Infectious Disease Society of America
NIH Postdoctoral Trainee Award, Molecular Microbial Persistence and Pathogenesis Program, University of Pittsburgh
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Scientific Program Award

Plessner H.L., Lin P.L., Khono T., Louie J.S., Kirschner D., Chan J., Flynn J.L. Neutralization of TNF by antibody but not TNF receptor fusion molecule exacerbates chronic murine tuberculosis. J Infect Dis. 2007: 195(11):1643-15.
Lin P.L., Pawar S., Myers A. Pegu A., Fuhrman C., Reinhart T.A., Capuano S.V., Klein E., Flynn J.L. Eraly events in mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in cynomolgus macaques. Infect Immun 2006;74(7): 3790-3803.
Lin P.L., Michaels M.G., Green M., Mazariegos G.V., Webber S.A., Lawrence K.S., Iurlano K., Greenberg D.P. Safety and immunogenicity of the AAP-recommended sequential pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccine schedule in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients. Pediatrics 2005; 116(1): 160-167.

May 1, 2009