Jeannie T Lee is The Phillip A. Sharp, PhD, Endowed Chair in Molecular Biology, Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Vice Chair of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Lee specializes in the study of epigenetic regulation by long noncoding RNAs and uses X-chromosome inactivation as a model system. She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine, a Harrington Rare Disease Scholar of the Harrington Discovery Institute, a recipient of the Lurie Prize from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, an awardee of the Centennial Prize from the Genetics Society of America, the 2010 Molecular Biology Prize and the 2020 Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Lee was also named a Distinguished Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

From 2013-2018, she co-launched the Epigenetics Initiative at Harvard Medical School and served as its Co-Director. She received her A.B. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University, obtained M.D.-Ph.D degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and carried out postdoctoral work at the Whitehead Institute & MIT.