About Delphine J. lee
Dr. Delphine J. Lee is the Chief of Dermatology and Residency Program Director at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center located in the South Bay. She leads her immunology research team at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute to investigate how to help your immune system fight cancer and improve outcomes for people with autoimmune diseases. Dr. Lee was the former Director of the Carolyn Dirks and Brett Dougherty Laboratory for Cancer Research and Department of Translational Immunology at John Wayne Cancer Institute at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. While at John Wayne Cancer Institute, Dr. Lee led the effort to expand the biorepository at JWCI and developed new collaborative projects in skin cancer, breast cancer, and other solid tumors to investigate relevant immune pathways important for fighting cancer. Her Department’s unique research investigating immunologic mechanisms is potentially relevant to a broad spectrum of solid malignancies, including breast cancer, melanoma, brain and gastrointestinal cancers. Her group is also bringing new approaches to personalized medicine, with translational research projects utlizing bioinformatic approaches combined with immune studies to develop improve therapies including cancer and beyond.