Wen-Hwa Lee

Wen-Hwa Lee (; born 1 June 1950) is a Taiwanese molecular biologist.

Education and career Lee earned his bachelor's degree from National Taiwan Normal University, master's degrees from National Taiwan University, then completed a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1981. Lee began his teaching career at the University of California, San Diego in 1984, as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 1990. Lee then moved to the University of California, Irvine, where he held the Donald Bren Professorship in Biological Chemistry. between the tenures of Huang Jong-tsun and Mien-Chie Hung.

Lee is one of four cofounding scientists of GeneTex, alongside Joel B. Baseman, C. Kent Osborne, and Eva Y.-H. P. Lee.

Lee was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 1994, the United States National Academy of Inventors in 2014, and The World Academy of Sciences in 2018.