Katherine L. Lee
Title: Lessons Learned in My Career and ACS Journey
Abstract
Biography
Katherine L. Lee is an expert in drug discovery, including structure-based and fragment-based drug design; a leader in portfolio strategy and business operations; and a strategic and scientific advisor on small and large molecule programs, most recently at Pfizer, Inc., in Cambridge, MA. She earned a B.S., summa cum laude, with Distinction in Chemistry, from Yale University and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at MIT before completing a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin. Her career in the pharmaceutical industry includes several years leading teams in medicinal chemistry and small molecule drug discovery, as well as in strategy and operations. Katherine has been District I Director in the American Chemical Society Board
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