Kelvin Lee, PhD

Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at University of Delaware

Speaker

Kelvin H. Lee is Gore Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware and
is Director of NIIMBL: the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, one of 14
Manufacturing USA Institutes. He received a BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton and PhD in
Chemical Engineering from Caltech. He spent several years in the Biotechnology Institute at the ETH in
Zurich, Switzerland and also completed a postdoc in Caltech's Biology Division. Prior to his current
appointment, he was on the faculty at Cornell University where he held the titles of: Samuel C. and Nancy M.
Fleming Chair Professor, Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Director of the
Cornell Institute for Biotechnology, and Director of the New York State Center for Life Science Enterprise.