Jeannie T. Lee | |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Awards | 2018 Harrington Rare Genetic Disease Scholar
2016 Lurie Award 2016 Centennial Award from Genetics Society of America 2015 Election to National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 2010 Molecular Biology Award from NAS 1999 Pew Scholar 1998 Basil O'Connor Scholar |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | epigenetics, long noncoding RNA, X-inactivation, 3D genome, X-chromosome reactivation technology |
| Thesis | (1993) |
| Academic advisors | Nancy Kleckner, Robert Nussbaum, Rudolf Jaenisch |
Jeannie T. Lee is a Professor of Genetics (and Pathology) at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She is known for her work on X-chromosome inactivation and for discovering the functions of a new class of epigenetic regulators known as long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), including Xist and Tsix.