Lee earned a bachelor's and a master's degree from
National Taiwan Normal University in 1972 and 1979, respectively. She then completed a doctorate in cellular and molecular biology at the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1984. As an undergraduate at NTNU, Lee worked as a teaching assistant. While pursuing her doctoral degree, Lee was a research assistant at
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. as well as a Chancellor's Professor. She is one of four founding scientists, as well as chairwoman, of
GeneTex. Lee was elected a member of Taiwan's
Academia Sinica in 2002. ==References==