Charles Lee, Ph.D., FACMG
Scientific Director and Professor, The Jackson laboratory for Genomic Medicine
The study of structural genomic variation in human biology, evolution and disease
The research laboratory of Dr. Charles Lee at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine develops and applies state-of-the-art technologies to study structural genomic variation and its contribution to human diseases, and vertebrate genome evolution.
Grants, honors and accomplishments
2014 - Thompson Reuters Citation Laureate in Physiology and Medicine
2012 - Fellow, AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
2012 - Chen Global Investigator Award, Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
2012 - Vandenberghe Chair Award, Katholic University of Leuven, Belgium
2010 - George W. Brumley, Jr., MD Memorial Award, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2008 - C. Thomas Caskey Lectureship, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
2007 - American Association for Cancer Research Inaugural Team Award, American Association for Cancer Research
2002 - Stanley L. Robbins Research Award, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
1996-1998 - NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
1996 - MRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Medical Research Council of Canada
1994-1996 - AHFMR PhD Studentship, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
1994 - 75th Anniversary Faculty of Medicine Scholarship, University of Alberta
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Press ReleaseApril 13, 2021Shriners Hospitals for Children and JAX announce research affiliation
A new research affiliation agreement between Shriners Hospitals for Children (SHC) and JAX will endeavor to gain a greater understanding of the genetic factors involved in cerebral palsy. -
Press ReleaseNovember 05, 2020Genomic testing in the U.S. workplace
Employee perk or privacy hazard? NIH funds JAX-co-led study to explore the ethical, legal, social, policy implications. -
Press ReleaseMarch 19, 2020Announcement: JAX to offer coronavirus testing in Connecticut
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Health, UConn Health and Hartford HealthCare, will provide additional coronavirus testing capacity for Connecticut residents -
Research HighlightApril 03, 2018Calling all structural variants
Structural variants, or SVs, are large DNA sequences that are inserted, inverted, deleted or duplicated within genomes. Finding SVs with short-read seq and analysis methods is difficult, but a new SV identification tool, FusorSV, sets a gold standard for SV detection and analysis.
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Press ReleaseFebruary 25, 2021A new reference for global genomic diversity
Exactly 20 years after the successful completion of the "Human Genome Project," an international group of researchers, the Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium (HGSVC), has now sequenced 32 human genomes at high resolution. -
Search MagazineSeptember 15, 2020Surgery in a pandemic
Hartford HealthCare hospitals return to a full surgical schedule, aided by quick-turnaround COVID-19 testing by The Jackson Laboratory. -
Press ReleaseJanuary 30, 2020Advancing genomics for pediatric orthopedic diseases
Shriners Hospitals for Children and The Jackson Laboratory announce research affiliation for genomic studies of pediatric patients. -
Blog PostMarch 02, 2017Moving forward with human genomics
HUGO President Charles Lee contemplates HUGO’s place in the global research and clinical communities and its value moving forward.