Yuan-Chuan Lee (; born 30 March 1932) is a Taiwanese biochemist who is currently a professor at

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in the United States. A

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native born on 30 March 1932, Yuan-Chuan Lee was the eldest son of painter

Lee Tze-fan Lee Tze-fan (; 5 June 1907 Shinchiku-cho (modern-day Hsinchu), Japanese Taiwan - 10 July 1989) was a Taiwanese painter and art teacher. He studied at Taihoku Normal School when he was 14 years old. His painting career began in 1924 when he was i ...

and his wife. Yuan-Chuan Lee graduated from Hsinchu Senior High School, as did his brothers Yuan T. Lee and Yuan-Pern Lee. Lee then attended

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, where he earned a bachelor's of science degree in 1955, followed by a master's of science in agricultural chemistry in 1957. Lee completed his doctorate at the

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in 1962 under the supervision of Rex Montgomery. Lee moved to the

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for postdoctoral research with Clinton Ballou, and joined the

faculty in 1965, where he was appointed Academy Professor in 2011. In 1994, Yuan-Chuan Lee became a member of Academia Sinica. Seven years later, Lee received the Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the

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. The Society for Glycobiology's 2011 Rosalind Kornfeld Award was shared between Lee and

Sen-itiroh Hakomori was a Japanese-American biochemist. Hakomori was born in Sendai on 13 February 1929, and graduated from Tohoku University Medical College in 1951. He elected for further study in biochemistry under Hajime Masamune. As a Fulbright Scholar, Hako ...

. Lee was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016.

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