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Dr. Lee is the leader of the team that produced SNUPPY, the first cloned dog, developed after somatic cell nuclear transfer technique. This work led to the birth of live cloned female dogs, cloned wolves using wolf cell transfer to dog oocyte, and service dogs. Subsequently, genetic changes are now possible when using genetic modified somatic cell transfer to enucleated oocyte. These transgenic dogs will be used in many fields of Bio-Medicine. Dr. Lee, DVM, Ph.D. has been an associate professor of the Department of Theriogenology and Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine at Seoul National University since 2001. He obtained a DVM and Ph.D. from the same university and became an instructor in 1995. Prior to working at Seoul National University, Professor Lee was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota in the area of Swine Theriogenology, and a Researcher at the Department of Veterinary Medical Science, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo. He also worked with Dr. Barry Bavister as a visiting professor (2001-2002) in Reproductive and Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans.

He has worked in the areas of in vitro oocyte production and micromanipulation, including somatic cell nuclear transfer in porcine, bovine and canine. He has been a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Veterinary Science, the Korean Society of Veterinary Science, the Korean Society of Veterinary Clinics and Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Society of Embryo Transfer.

The present objectives of the research group are to improve the efficiency of dog cloning, and to produce transgenic cloned dogs. Also, his research is focused on the production of cloned pig for xenotransplantation. He published more than 160 scientific manuscripts including "Dogs cloned from adult somatic cells" in Nature 2005.