Primary Job Title Chief Executive Officer & Chief Scientific Officer Primary Organization 
Adesis
Location Mountain View, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Dr. Lee received his BA and M.S.-Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, respectively, and held postdoctoral fellowships at U. Illinois and Harvard University (NIH). He has held leadership and technical positions at Lederle Laboratories (Cyanamid), Microcide Pharmaceuticals, Iconix Pharmaceuticals
(Iconix Biosciences), Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Limerick Biopharma, and CB Research and Development.
For most of his career, Dr. Lee has conducted multi-disciplinary programs with significant research components in discovery and preclinical technology. From 2002 to 2004, Dr. Lee was Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President, Discovery Research at Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where he directed research on boron-based therapeutics with support from a $22.6M Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract. At Microcide, Dr. Lee held various positions including Vice President, Chemistry and Pre-clinical Research, Research Operations and Technology Assessment, and Senior Research Advisor responsible for research in beta-lactams for problematic gram-positive pathogens, uridyl-peptide antibiotics for problematic gram-negative pathogens, and inhibitors of bacterial efflux pumps. While at Lederle, he was responsible for the discovery of new anti-infectives, including the glycylcyclines, carbapenems, enhanced third-generation cephalosporins, beta-lactamase inhibitors, and new oncology agents.
