Marjorie Berman Lees (1923–2012) was an American neuroscientist who was emeritus professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School.
[2] She joined the group of David Nachmansohn, where she worked on choline acetyltransferase and identified the presence of Coenzyme A, a small, heat-stable organic molecule.
[1] Her husband was admitted to an aeronautical engineering graduate program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lees eventually joined the lab of Jordi Folch Pi at Harvard Medical School.
[1] Lees started her independent academic career at the Geisel School of Medicine (then Dartmouth Medical College), where she continued to study lipid isolation and to develop quantitative extraction strategies.
[1] She eventually returned to Harvard Medical School, where she established a laboratory at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
[1] Alongside her work on proteolipids, Lees studied myelin, the fatty substance that surrounds the axons of nerves.