Sylvia Lee

Siu Sylvia Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. She received a B.A. in Biochemistry from Rice University in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in 1999. She received her postdoctoral training at the Department of Molecular Biology of Massachusetts General Hospital & the Department of Genetics of Harvard Medical School, where she was awarded a Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

She joined the faculty at Cornell in 2003. She is in the graduate fields of Genetics & Development, Biochemistry, Molecular, & Cell Biology, and Nutrition. Her research is supported by the National Institute of Aging and the Ellison Medical Foundation. She teaches BioBM/BioGD/Tox437: Regulation of Cell Proliferation, Senescence, and Death.