Dr. Se-Jin Lee received his MD and PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is currently professor at Jackson laboratories with his work focusing on  studying the regulation of mammalian development and adult tissue homeostasis by growth and differentiation factors. Much of his work has focused on a molecule that he and his team have designated myostatin. Dr. Lee and his team’s long term goal is to attempt to exploit the biological properties of myostatin to develop novel therapeutic strategies for treating patients with muscle degenerative and wasting conditions, such as muscular dystrophy, sarcopenia, and cachexia resulting from diseases like cancer, AIDS and sepsis.