John Lee

John Lee joined Decibel in September 2016 as senior vice president of pharmaceutical development and brings over 20 years of experience in the biotechnology industry. Prior to Decibel, he served as senior vice president of pharmaceutical development at Infinity Pharmaceuticals. Throughout his 15 years at Infinity, John held roles of increasing responsibility and leadership. Most recently, he was responsible for chemistry manufacturing and control (CMC), analytical sciences, formulation sciences and clinical supply and distribution for the company’s drug candidates across all phases of global clinical development. He was also co-chair of Infinity’s operational leadership team. Previously, John was a new product manager at Corning Life Sciences, where he was responsible for developing new life science products. Before Corning, John was an early member of Millennium Pharmaceuticals and played a key role in the successful positional cloning of the mouse obesity gene tubby, before becoming project lead for an ovarian cancer diagnostic program. Prior to Millennium, John worked in the developmental chronobiology lab of Steven Reppert at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he focused on cloning G-protein coupled receptors and circadian biology. John received his bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.