Stephanie Lee (scientist)

Stephanie J. Lee is an American haematologist and physician scientist who is professor and associate director at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Lee works to improve the lives of blood stem cell transplant and bone marrow patients by better understanding the chronic form of graft-versus-host disease.

She pursued a medical degree at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she completed a residency and internship.

[4] In particular, she looks to understand and prevent chronic graft-versus-host disease,[7] an autoimmune disorder that occurs after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Lee is the director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Long-Term Follow-Up (LTFU) program,[9] which tracks over 5,000 patients who have undergone bone marrow or stem cell transplants.