Young-Min Lee, Ph.D.

Field: Agriculture, Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Animal Viruses, Antivirals, Human Viruses, Vaccines

Expertise

• Viruses
• Human viruses
• Animal viruses
• Zoonotic viruses
• Viral replication
• Viral pathogenesis
• Vaccines
• Antivirals

Bio

Dr. Young-Min Lee received a B.S. degree in biology from Chung-Ang University from Seoul, Korea, in 1991 and a second B.S. degree in biological sciences from the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1993. He completed his Ph.D. training in 1998 in Baltimore, Maryland at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Lee did two years of post-doctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

From 2000 to 2011, he was a faculty member of the Chungbuk National University Medical School in Cheongju, Korea, where he achieved the rank of full professor in 2011. In 2012, he joined Utah State University as an associate professor in the Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences department. He is currently directing a molecular virology laboratory, with a major focus on the molecular mechanisms of viral replication and pathogenesis of three clinically important human/animal pathogens (Zika virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus).