Lee Retina Lab News
2026
June
May
February
January
Justin will be joining the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA this fall.
Congratulations Justin, we are so proud of you!
Welcome Taimu to the Lee Retina Lab!
The Lee Retina Lab had one poster presentation at ARVO 2026 in Denver, CO.
Welcome Leimeng to the Lee Retina Lab!
Welcome Katelyn to the Lee Retina Lab!
2025
June
May
April
March
February
Congratulations Susan on receiving the 2025 AΩA Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship!
The Lee Retina Lab had one poster and one oral presentation at ARVO 2025 in Salt Lake City, UT.
Congratulations Susan on receiving the Town and Gown of USC Scholarship at USC and the Qais Farjo Memorial Travel Grant at 2025 ARVO!
Congratulations Miso on receiving the Keck Summer Fellowship Award!
Dr. Lee was promoted to Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Physiology and Neuroscience with Tenure.
Welcome Tongzhou to the Lee Retina Lab!
Welcome Amy to the Lee Retina Lab!
Welcome Miso to the Lee Retina Lab!
An article on one of Dr. Lee's unique clinical cases was published by Keck Medicine of USC. You can read more about it here: https://keck.usc.edu/news/a-ophthalmology-solution-at-usc/.
2024
May
April
January
The Lee Retina Lab presented two cases at the 2024 Pacific Retina Club and International Retinal Imaging Symposium in Los Angeles, CA.
The Lee Retina Lab had two posters at ARVO 2024 in Seattle, WA.
Congratulations Susan on receiving the Keck Summer Research Fellowship!
Congratulations Clarisa on receiving the Kaiser Oliver Goldsmith, MD, Scholarship!
We are excited to announce that the Lee Retina Lab has received a five-year NIH/NEI R01 award for Dr. Lee's research project, “Extracellular vesicle-based intraocular therapy combined with active targeting of ocular neovascularization.”
2023
September
June
May
April
January
We are excited to announce that the Lee Retina Lab received an R21 award from the NEI to develop intraocular exosome therapy for diabetic retinopathy!
Welcome Kayla to the Lee Retina Lab!
The Lee Retina Lab website is officially launched. Thanks, Justin for the nice work!
Dr. Lee received one of eight Young Investigator Awards from Alcon Research Institute.
Congratulations Justin on receiving the USC Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship!
Welcome Clarisa to the Lee Retina Lab!
Paper titled "Fiji-Assisted Automatic Quantitative Volumetric Analysis of Choroidal Neovascularization in a Laser-Induced Choroidal Neovascularization Mouse Model" is published in the Translational Vision Science & Technology Journal.
The Lee Retina Lab had two posters and one oral presentation at ARVO 2023 in New Orleans, LA.
Welcome Gopa to the Lee Retina Lab!
2022
September
August
May
Dr. Lee received a one-year NIH/NEI R56 award.
Paper titled "Utility of No-Charge Panel Genetic Testing for Inherited Retinal Diseases in a Real-World Clinical Setting" was published in Journal of Vitreoretinal Diseases.
Paper titled "Intraocular RGD-Engineered Exosomes and Active Targeting of Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV)" was published in Cells.
Paper titled "Proteomic Insight into the Role of Exosomes in Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy Development" was published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.
The Lee Retina Lab had three poster presentations at ARVO 2022 in Denver, CO.
2018
September
Dr. Lee founded the Lee Retina Lab.