Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D.
Phone: (650) 498-7426
Email:
sandralee at stanford dot edu[sandralee]
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar, is a medical anthropologist whose work probes the social and cultural contexts of emerging genetic technologies and their application in biomedicine. Dr. Lee’s research includes several ongoing projects related to the social and ethical implications of human genetic variation research. A long standing interest is on the meaning of “race” and scientific and public understandings of genetic differences and their potential impact on pharmacogenomics, the public health goal of eliminating health disparities and justice in healthcare (Race and Distributive Justice in Pharmacogenomics Research; K01 HL72465). Dr. Lee is co-editor of Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age (2008) and is currently working on a book entitled, American DNA: Race, Justice and the New Genetic Sciences. Dr. Lee also studies the development of personal genomics and the commercialization of genetic sequencing technologies. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on social networking and personal genomic information, investigating the circulation of genetic information and the implications of the shifting boundary between consumers and patients in direct-to-consumer genetics (Social Networking and Personal Genomics: Emerging Issues in Health Research; 1R01HG005086).
Dr. Lee has been a Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in the Advanced Seminar Rethinking Race and Science: Biology, Genes and Culture. Dr. Lee's awards include a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award, and a National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Career Development Award in Research Ethics. Committed to interdisciplinary dialogue, Dr. Lee has published numerous articles in journals reaching diverse audiences including the American Journal of Public Health, Genome Biology, Public Health Genomics, American Journal of Bioethics, PLoS Biology, Genome Medicine, Ethos, JAMA, Clinical Therapeutics and Pharmacology and Science.
In addition to her research activities, Dr. Lee teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Center for the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity . Dr. Lee is Co-Chairperson of the Institutional Review Board at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California and serves on the Consultation and Oversight Group of the International HapMap Collection at the Coriell Repositories. Dr. Lee is Co-Chair of the ELSI Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Lee received her undergraduate degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco. Dr. Lee completed a NIH funded postdoctoral fellowship in the SCBE Program in Genomics, Ethics and Society (F32HG00221). Dr. Lee is currently a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE) and Director of Research for the Center for Integrated Research on Genetics and Ethics (CIRGE) (2P50HG003389).
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