Annie Lee

Annie Lee is an Assistant Professor of Nutritional Medicine (in Medicine and in the Institute of Human Nutrition) at Columbia University Medical Center. She earned dual B.S. degrees in Statistics and Mathematics from Ewha Womans University (2010), followed by an M.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2019) in Biostatistics from Columbia University. Her research integrates statistical genetics, machine learning, and multi-omics to investigate Alzheimer’s disease, vascular risk factors, and biological aging. Recent work includes developing novel machine-learning methods for disease subtyping using longitudinal omics data, characterizing microglia transcriptional signatures, and examining APOE-ε4-induced fibronectin at the blood-brain barrier. She received the Carol and Gene Ludwig Pilot Grant in Neurodegeneration (2023) and the KASBP Fellowship Award (2021).