Brendan Lee

Brendan Lee is the Robert and Janice McNair Endowed Chair, Professor, and Chairman of the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Director of the Center for Skeletal Medicine and Biology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Texas Medical Center Bone Disease Program of Texas. As a pediatrician and geneticist, Brendan studies structural birth defects and inborn errors of metabolism. Brendan identified the first genetic causes of human skeletal dysplasias and their implications for cancers of the skeleton. In the area of metabolic disease, he has studied nitric oxide dysregulation and developed new treatments for maple syrup urine disease and urea cycle disorders.

Brendan earned his B.S. from City University of New York, Brooklyn College, his Ph.D. from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, and his M.D. from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.