The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has promoted Andrew Lee, PhD, to full professor.
A faculty member in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Lee joined the School in 2001 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2007. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine.
Lee uses nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the role of structural dynamics in protein function for a variety of proteins that play important roles in metabolism and signal transduction. His work is currently supported by two R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health.
“The effect of protein structural dynamics on protein function is a relatively young but important field of research, and Dr. Lee has added greatly to our understanding in this area,” says Bob Blouin, dean of the School. “This is a well-deserved promotion that reflects the valuable contribution he has made since coming to UNC.”
Lee has authored more than forty-five publications, including papers in Nature Chemical Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Structure. He is the corresponding author on six publications that were selected by the Faculty of 1000. He has given thirty-five invited seminars since coming to UNC, including presentations at the University of Pennsylvania, The Scripps Research Institute, Yale University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Texas Southwestern. He was most recently an invited speaker and a session chair at the 27th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society in Boston in 2013.
Lee earned a bachelor’s in chemistry from Pomona College and a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to UNC, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the State University of New York at Buffalo.