Joanne Lin

I graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Pharmacy with First Class Honours in 2008. After practising as a registered pharmacist, I completed my PhD in 2013. My doctoral research investigated the effects of methamphetamine addiction on the human brain with a focus on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pharmacotherapies for addiction.

In 2013, I moved overseas to undertake postdoctoral training – first at Stanford University School of Medicine and then in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). In that time, I worked across several areas including measuring the neural effects of opioid exposure in the treatment of various pain conditions and investigating pain pathways with MRI. In 2018, I undertook the Neurological Foundation Repartition Fellowship to return to the University of Auckland and start my independent research programme developing neuroimaging measures for detecting brain inflammation. In 2020, I was awarded a Health Research Council Emerging Researcher First Grant to investigate the effects of low-dose naltrexone as an adjunctive treatment for major depressive disorder. My goal is to establish an independent research lab in the field of clinical neuroimaging in New Zealand and hope to continue to undertake research in neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions to improve health outcomes for New Zealanders.

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