Jacqueline A. Lees

Prof. Jackie Lees’ research program focuses on proteins and pathways that control cellular proliferation, terminal differentiation and/or apoptosis, and are frequently deregulated in tumor cells – understanding the role of these proteins in normal cell biology and development will help establish how their deregulation contributes to tumor development and metastasis. Prof. Lees is Associate Director of the Koch Institute, Professor of Biology at MIT, and a Daniel K. Ludwig Scholar. She received her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of London and was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ed Harlow at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School.