Yuan-Chuan Lee | |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Date: | 1932 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Shinchiku, Japanese Taiwan |
Nationality: | Republic of China |
Education: | National Taiwan University (BS, MS) University of Iowa (PhD) |
Occupation: | Biochemist |
Employer: | Johns Hopkins University |
Father: | Lee Tze-fan |
Relatives: | Lee Yuan-pern, Yuan T. Lee (brothers) |
Awards: | Claude S. Hudson Award Rosalind Kornfeld Award |
Yuan-Chuan Lee (; born 30 March 1932) is a Taiwanese biochemist who is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
A Hsinchu City native born on 30 March 1932,[1] Yuan-Chuan Lee was the eldest son of painter Lee Tze-fan and his wife. Yuan-Chuan Lee graduated from Hsinchu Senior High School, as did his brothers Yuan T. Lee and Yuan-Pern Lee. Lee then attended National Taiwan University, where he earned a bachelor's of science degree in 1955, followed by a master's of science in agricultural chemistry in 1957. Lee completed his doctorate at the University of Iowa in 1962 under the supervision of Rex Montgomery.[2] Lee moved to the University of California, Berkeley for postdoctoral research with Clinton Ballou,[3] and joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 1965, where he was appointed Academy Professor in 2011.[4]
In 1994, Yuan-Chuan Lee became a member of Academia Sinica.[5] Seven years later, Lee received the Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.[6] The Society for Glycobiology's 2011 Rosalind Kornfeld Award was shared between Lee and Sen-itiroh Hakomori.[3] Lee was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016.[7]