Hanjun Lee

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Stephen Elledge Lab
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Hanjun Lee grew up in South Korea and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Phi Beta Kappa. Before joining Harvard, he studied the cell cycle and chromatin organization with Dr. Michael S. Lawrence and Dr. Nicholas J. Dyson at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. This work earned him the Salvador Luria Prize and the American Association for Cancer Research Undergraduate Scholar Award. In the Elledge lab, he studies non-canonical sources of cancer antigens, including translation from alternative reading frames and alternative splicing. He has served as a Teaching Assistant for MIT’s Fundamentals of Experimental Molecular Biology (7.002) and as a Teaching Fellow for Harvard’s Chromosomes (MCB188).