Sulggi Lee, MD, PhD

Sulggi Lee, MD PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a faculty member in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is the PI of the UCSF Treat Acute HIV study, Co-PI of the UCSF SCOPE HIV cohort, the PI of the COVID-19 Host Immune Response Pathogenesis (CHIRP) study, Co-PI of the UCSF AIDS Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR), and Co-Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Bioinformatics Core. She is one of the founding executive committee members of the UCSF Women's Physician Scientist Supergroup (WPSS) and a faculty mentor for the UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Community of Underrepresented Physician Scientists (CUPS) program. Her research focuses on clinical translational studies aimed at determining how natural host responses to pathogens (e.g., HIV, SARS-CoV-2) can be leveraged as future therapeutic targets using discovery-based analytic approaches. Her collaborative, interdisciplinary team includes data scientists, immunologists, virologists, and clinicians. Her work involves the application of highly advanced laboratory assays to well-characterized patient samples from observational studies and clinical trials. The goal of her research is to identify underlying host mechanisms of pathogen control to enable the identification of potential novel therapeutic targets for reducing morbidity and mortality associated with HIV and COVID-19.