
Hanjun Lee
Ph.D. student in Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Harvard Medical School
Education
2024– Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School
2018–2024 S.B. in Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Experience
2024– PhD Student, Harvard Medical School (Advisor: Stephen J. Elledge)
2020–2024 Data Analyst, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center (Advisor: Nicholas J. Dyson, Michael S. Lawrence)
2020 Visiting Researcher, Seoul National University (Advisor: Je-Yoel Cho)
2018–2019 Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Advisor: Ronald T. Raines)
2017–2018 Research Assistant, Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (Advisor: Sang-Hee Shim)
Teaching Experience
Spring 2026 Teaching Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University (Course: Chromosomes)
Fall 2021–Fall 2022 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Course: Fundamentals of Experimental Molecular Biology)
Fall 2022 Biology Pedagogy Certificate, Biology Teaching & Learning Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honors
2024 The Salvador E. Luria Prize for excellent scholarship and research of publication quality
2024 Phi Beta Kappa
2021–2024 Robert A. Swanson (1969) Memorial Scholarship
2018–2024 Kwanjeong Overseas Scholarship
2023–2024 AACR Undergraduate Scholar Award
2023 Gordon Research Conference Travel Award (Conference: Cell Growth and Proliferation)
2021 The Gene Brown Prize for outstanding academic scholarship and excellence as a teaching assistant (Course: Fundamentals of Experimental Molecular Biology)
2020 Howard I. Wood (1901) Memorial Scholarship
2017 Gold Medalist, International Chemistry Olympiad
Public Service
2019–2020 Sergeant, 1st Security Group, Capital Defense Command, Republic of Korea Army
Services
2023– Member, American Association for Cancer Research
2018– Member, American Chemical Society