Dr. Hey-Kyoung Lee received her B.S. degree in Biology from Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) in 1992. In 1997, she completed her graduate studies under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Bear, and received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). Her thesis work focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of bidirectional synaptic plasticity .  Dr. Lee pursued her postdoctoral training in Neuroscience with Dr. Richard Huganir at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland), where she studied the role of AMPA receptor phosphorylation in synaptic plasticity. In 2003, she took her current position as an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was awarded the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2004, and was nominated as one of the "Yonsei 100 Women Leaders" in 2006. In 2009, she was awarded the Junior Faculty Award from the College of Chemical and Life Sciences, and received tenure from the University of Maryland and promoted to Associate Professor.

Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Program
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
Bioscience Research Bldg. Rm 1112
College Park, MD 20742
email1: hlee21@umd.edu
email2: heykyounglee@gmail.com
telephone: (301) 405-9784