Richard Lee is a Professor of Translational Immunology at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and clinical director of research and development at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He is a member of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies, International Ocular Inflammation Society, British Society for Immunology, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). 

Lee received a Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Bristol, UK, an MRCS in Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, UK, and an MRCOphth in Ophthalmology from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.