Virginia Man-Yee Lee | |
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| 李文渝 | |
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| Born | 1945[2] |
| Education | University of London (BSc) Imperial College London (MSc) University of California, San Francisco (PhD) University of Pennsylvania (MBA) |
| Known for | Research of Alzheimer's disease |
| Spouse | John Q. Trojanowski |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience Biochemistry |
| Institutions | University of Utrecht Boston Children's Hospital Harvard University Smith, Kline & French University of Pennsylvania |
| Thesis | Studies on the in vitro lipolytic activity of pituitary growth hormone (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Choh Hao Li[1] |
Virginia Man-Yee Lee (Chinese: 李文渝; born 1945) is a Chinese-born American biochemist and neuroscientist who specializes in the research of Alzheimer's disease. She is the current John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer's Research at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and the director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research and co-director of the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer Drug Discovery Program at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.[4] She received the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.[1]
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- ^ "L". Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 1780–2019 (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. p. 361. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 3, 2022. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
- ^ Mukhopadhyay, Rajendrani (June 28, 2013). "Virginia Lee: notes on a career". ASBMB Today. Archived from the original on November 22, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "Virginia Man-Yee Lee". Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on November 25, 2022. Retrieved November 23, 2022.