Charles Yin is a MD Candidate at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He previously obtained a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology also at the University of Western Ontario through the MD/PhD combined degree program.
Charles completed his undergraduate degree in Integrated Science and Biochemistry at McMaster University, where he worked under Dr. Dawn Bowdish of the McMaster Immunology Research Centre on signaling transduction mechanisms of macrophage scavenger receptors. After arriving at Western in 2014, Charles completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Bryan Heit, where his thesis work focused on characterizing how macrophages process efferocytic cargo following uptake of apoptotic cells, and understanding how this process becomes dysregulated in atherosclerosis.
Charles’s graduate work was supported by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and the CIHR MD/PhD Studentship. Outside of the clinic and the lab, Charles has interests in health advocacy, medical education and youth science outreach.