Charles Lee

Charles Lee is a scientist and academic. He is the Robert Alvine Family Endowed Chair. He is also a professor and clinical cytogeneticist with an active research program focused on the identification and characterization of structural genomic variants using advanced technology platforms. His laboratory was the first to describe genome-wide structural genomic variants (in the form of copy number variants (CNVs)) among humans with the subsequent development of genomic maps that are used in the diagnoses of array-based genetic tests.

Education Lee graduated from the University of Alberta with a BSc in 1990, an MSc in 1993, and a PhD in 1996. He also received a Distinguished Alumni award in 2018.

Awards 2007: AACR Awards (AACR Team Science Award) 2008: Ho-Am Prize in Medicine 2014: Clarivate Citation Laureates in Physiology or Medicine 2024: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada