INVESTIGATOR SPOTLIGHT: Arthur Lee, MD, PhD

Arthur Lee MD, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth Engle at Boston Children’s Hospital. He leverages next-generation sequencing technologies to identify the coding and non-coding genetic causes of the CCDDs, a set of rare pediatric disorders that affect movement of the eyes and face.   Dr. Lee received his AB in Biology at Harvard College, where he developed early maps of copy-number variation in humans and non-human primates. He received his MD and PhD in Computational and Systems Biology from Washington University School of Medicine, where he studied the effects of rare copy-number variants on infertility in humans and mice. As a member of the Engle lab, he continues to use new experimental and computational techniques to unlock the rich catalogue of variation in the human genome and link these variants to disease.   Dr. Lee is a Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.