Principal Investigator
Richard Lee, M.D.
Rich Lee's laboratory seeks to understand heart failure and metabolic diseases that accompany human aging, and to translate that understanding into therapies, including stem cell transplantation strategies and new biological agents. Lee is an active clinician, regularly treating patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Richard Lee, M.D.
- Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
- Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School - Senior Physician
Brigham and Women's Hospital - HSCI Program Leader, Cardiovascular Diseases
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Richard T. Lee is Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a 1979 graduate of Harvard College in Biochemical Sciences and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1983. Lee completed his residency in 1986 and cardiology fellowship in 1989, both at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in cardiovascular disease. Lee is Leader of the Cardiovascular Diseases Program of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Circulation.
Dr. Lee has published over 270 peer-reviewed articles based on his research, and teaches undergraduates at Harvard College. In addition, he is an active clinician. He regularly treats patients as a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Lab Overview
The Lee Laboratory uses biotechnologies to discover and design new approaches to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. We work at this interface using a broad variety of techniques in genomics, stem cell biology, and molecular biology. Our approach is to understand human problems and design solutions in the laboratory, and then we demonstrate the effectiveness of these solutions in vivo.
Ongoing projects in the laboratory include studies of cardiac regeneration, diabetes, aging and metabolism.
Join the Lee Lab!
Our approach is to understand human problems and design solutions in the laboratory, and to demonstrate the effectiveness of these solutions in vivo. Our research includes heart regeneration with stem cells, the factors that contribute to cardiac aging and heart failure, Arrestin proteins and metabolism, and DNA adducts in aging.
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