Wen-Hwa Lee (; born 1 June 1950) is a Taiwanese molecular biologist.
Lee earned his bachelor's degree from National Taiwan Normal University, master's degrees from National Taiwan University,[1] then completed a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1981.[1] [2] Lee began his teaching career at the University of California, San Diego in 1984, as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 1990.[1] Between 1991 and 2003, he was a member of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, serving as Alice P. McDermott Distinguished University Chair.[1] [3] Lee then moved to the University of California, Irvine, where he held the Donald Bren Professorship in Biological Chemistry.[1] [2] Lee returned to Taiwan in 2014, to assume a professorship at China Medical University.[1] He concurrently served as CMU president from 2014 to 2019,[1] [4] between the tenures of Huang Jong-tsun and Mien-Chie Hung.
Lee is one of four cofounding scientists of GeneTex, alongside Joel B. Baseman, C. Kent Osborne, and Eva Y.-H. P. Lee.[5]
Lee was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 1994,[1] and awarded fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012,[6] [7] the United States National Academy of Inventors in 2014,[8] [9] and The World Academy of Sciences in 2018.[10]