Darren J. Lee, PhD | Vision Scientist Joins Dean McGee Eye Institute

Darren J. Lee, PhD | Vision Scientist Joins Dean McGee Eye Institute

The Journal Record
09/02/2015
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Vision scientist joins Dean McGee Eye Institute

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Dean McGee Eye Institute has appointed vision researcher Darren J. Lee to its basic science research faculty as assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Oklahoma’s College of Medicine. Lee is a National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant-funded vision researcher who comes to the Dean McGee Eye Institute from the Boston University School of Medicine. He served as an instructor at BUSM after completing his postdoctoral training there and at the Schepens Eye Research Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Lee earned his bachelor’s degree in genetics from the University of California, Davis. He completed his doctorate in genetics at the University of New Hampshire and served as adjunct faculty as a microbiology instructor at New Hampshire Community Technical College before going to Boston for his postdoctoral training.

– Staff report

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