Peter P. Lee

Peter P. Lee, M.D., is currently the chair of the Department of Immuno-Oncology at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope and a beneficiary of The Christopher Family Endowed Innovation Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and Breast Cancer Research in Honor of Vineta Christopher. He is co-leader of the Cancer Immunotherapeutics Program, professor in the Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and the Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Professor in Cancer Immunotherapeutics. Dr. Lee received his medical degree at University of California San Diego and completed fellowships at both Stanford University and University of California San Francisco. The focus of his research is on understanding how cancer impacts host immune responses in patients, with the goal of developing novel treatments to restore/enhance immune function in cancer patients.