Daniel Y. Lee

Daniel Y. Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

	Daniel Y. Lee, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Member The Methodist Hospital Research Institute Research Scientist, Department of Radiology The Methodist Hospital Assistant Professor of Radiology Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University Phone: 713-441-4355 Fax: 713-441-4080 E-mail: dlee@tmhs.org
Education B.A. University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (Biochemistry) M.D. Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA Ph.D. Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA (Biophysics) Postdoctoral Training Molecular Imaging Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Radiology, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA Internal Medicine Residency, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Nuclear Medicine Fellowship (including Molecular and Medical Pharmacology), Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Biography

Dr. Lee graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley where he also received the Eric Hoffer Essay Prize his senior year. From 1992 until 2001, he earned a M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford University Medical School in Stanford, California. While there, Dr. Li was mentored under a Medical Scientist Training Program grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Dr. Lee is the first author on several key research papers, including one on histone acetylation that was published in Cell while he was still in medical school. Dr. Lee assumed his positions at Methodist in 2008.

Description of Research

Dr. Lee is an accomplished expert in nuclear medicine, biophysics, and molecular biology. His research specifically centers on pathophysiology from a molecular imaging approach. He studies the epigenetics of cancer, and develops new tools for the study of biochemical and intracellular signaling pathways, as well as platform technology for targeted radiotherapy.

Major Areas of Research

Cancer, nanoparticles, pathophysiology, radiotherapy

Recent Publications

Li L, Wartchow CA, Danthi SN, Shen Z, Dechene N, Pease J, Choi HS, Doede T, Chu P, Ning S, Lee DY, Bednarski MD, Knox SJ. A novel antiangiogenesis therapy using an integrin antagonist or anti-Flk-1 antibody coated 90Y-labeled nanoparticles. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2004 Mar 15;58(4):1215-27.

Guccione S, Yang YS, Shi G, Lee DY, Li KC, Bednarski MD. Functional genomics guided with MR imaging: mouse tumor model study. Radiology. 2003 Aug;228(2):560-8. Epub 2003 Jun 23.

Lee DY, Clayton DA. Initiation of mitochondrial DNA replication by transcription and R-loop processing. J Biol Chem. 1998 Nov 13;273(46):30614-21.

Lee DY, Clayton DA. RNase mitochondrial RNA processing correctly cleaves a novel R loop at the mitochondrial DNA leading-strand origin of replication. Genes Dev. 1997 Mar 1;11(5):582-92.

Lee DY, Hayes JJ, Pruss D, Wolffe AP. A positive role for histone acetylation in transcription factor access to nucleosomal DNA. Cell. 1993 Jan 15;72(1):73-84.