Dr. Brendan Lee is a pediatrician and board‑certified medical geneticist with longstanding expertise in the study of structural birth defects and inborn errors of metabolism. He is the Robert and Janice McNair Endowed Chair in Molecular and Human Genetics and serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).

Dr. Lee co-directs the joint MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas Health, and BCM Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Bone Disease Program of Texas, as well as the BCM Center for Skeletal Medicine and Biology. He is the founder and director of the Skeletal Dysplasia Clinic at Texas Children’s Hospital and founded the Medical Student Research Track at BCM. His research program has produced more than 300 peer‑reviewed publications and over 80 invited reviews, chapters, and books, supported by more than 25 years of continuous NIH funding. He currently leads the NIH Baylor College of Medicine Undiagnosed Diseases Network Clinical Site and the NIH Brittle Bone Disorders Consortium and holds multiple patents in drug discovery and gene therapy, with several licensed technologies in clinical trials.

Dr. Lee has received extensive national and international recognition for his scientific and clinical contributions, including election to the National Academy of Medicine and fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His honors include the American Society of Human Genetics Curt Stern Award, the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research William F. Neuman Award, the TAMEST Peter and Edith O’Donnell Award in Medicine, and the Michael E. DeBakey Excellence in Research Award, among many others. He has served on numerous nonprofit boards and advisory panels, including the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director, and was previously an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has also led global initiatives, including the establishment of the joint Baylor College of Medicine–Chinese University of Hong Kong Center for Medical Genetics.