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Wen Hwa Lee

CEO, Action Against AMD; Co-Director Affordable Medicines, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Wen Hwa Lee

Wen Hwa Lee, PhD, is the CEO and Chief Scientist at Action Against Age-Related Macular Degeneration, a London-based research charity focused on tackling the leading cause of legal blindness in the developed world at its earliest stages with maximum affordability and accessibility. He is also co-director of Oxford Martin School's Affordable Medicines Programme, at the University of Oxford. Dr. Lee is a molecular and structural biologist with a wide international network in drug discovery, including charities, academia, industry, and government agencies. Previously at the University of Oxford, Lee is an experienced leader in fostering partnerships with multiple stakeholders to accelerate drug discovery for underserved diseases. He designed and implemented several strategies in two of the largest and most successful international public-private partnerships for drug discovery--the Structural Genomics Consortium and the European Lead Factory.