Overview
Wonjae Lee, PhD, comes to Duke from Stanford University, where his research focused on engineering central nervous system disease models.
A basic scientist, Lee is developing innovative ways to reconstruct the structural and functional integrity in the neurovascular unit in microfluidic chips. His models are used to answer how vasculatures mediate the geno-pheno-enviro relationship to develop personalized therapeutic strategies.
Lee received his PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford, where his dissertation explored tissue engineering. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea.
During his time at Stanford, Lee received a Career Development Award (K25) from the National Cancer Institute.