Wen Hwa Lee

Wen Hwa Lee, BSc MSc PhD is the Programme Director of the Disease Foundations Network, Strategic Alliances at the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), University of Oxford. His training included Biology, Molecular and Structural Biology, Protein Crystallography, Computational Biology and Drug Discovery, gathered in diverse places such as Brazil (UNICAMP and LNLS), US (Scripps) and France (Paris V). Lee joined the SGC in 2004 and has been involved in the planning of scientific strategies, communications, collaborations and alliances with external collaborators. Lee has been working with international institutions and government agencies to facilitate the exchange of expertise and establishment of joint research programmes with SGC’s international partners, including charities, universities and pharmaceutical companies. Most recently, Lee led the establishment a new SGC laboratory in Brazil to explore novel kinases. Presently, Lee is focused on establishing new strategic partnerships with patient and disease foundations, aiming to bridge basic research and patient-driven drug discovery efforts.