Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Ryang Hwa Lee is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center. She has earned her PhD in Physiology from School of Medicine, Pusan National University in 2003 on the “Characterization of human adipose and bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)”. In 2003, she joined the Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University Health Sciences Center as a Post-doctoral Fellow for a continuous study on MSCs with Dr. Darwin Prockop, a pioneer in the MSC field. She has joined the Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2008 as a Research Scientist and the Faculty of Texas A&M Health Science Center in the year 2009. Currently, her research group focuses on investigating the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms of therapeutic effects of MSCs in animal models of human diseases including sterile inflammation-mediated injury, type 1 diabetes and cancer.