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Tom Lee, PhD Phone: (832) 824-8941 Email:

Tom V. Lee is an Instructor in the Laboratory for Integrative Functional Genomics. He received his PhD in the Genes & Development program at M.D. Anderson UT-Health Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, studying the role of ubiquitylation in programmed cell death. He subsequently participated in studies of glycosylation in Notch signal transduction. Currently, Tom is using both fruit fly models and human cell culture to investigate the aberrant mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. More specifically, his research probes the role of the cell cytoskeleton, pursuing targets nominated based on human brain proteomics from the Accelerating Medicines Partnership-Alzheimer's Disease Consortium. Tom's research is supported by the National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association