Sam Lee

Dr. Sam Lee has over 25 years of anti-infective drug discovery research experience. Prior to Cocrystal, he managed anti-infective drug discovery projects for eight years at Icos Corporation (Nasdaq: ICOS). At Icos, Dr. Lee was responsible for incorporating protein crystallography and structural screening technologies into Icos research and played a key role for developing phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) delta inhibitors, which ultimately yielded an FDA approved product. He received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Notre Dame, and completed postdoctoral training in viral biochemistry with Dr. I. R. Lehman at Stanford University. While at Stanford, Dr. Lee founded and was CEO of Viral Assays in Cupertino, CA.