Johnny Lee, MD

It's #MatchDay2025!! 👀 Check out these stars! 🤩 Thrilled to have matched with this talented bunch, looking forward to 2026/27! Welcome to the Trojan and LAG families! 🙌

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS, indeterminate dendritic cell histiocytosis or other (non-LCH) histiocytic sarcomas cases. I'm trying to understand non-surgical chemo and targeted therapy options, new pathology markers to better diagnose subtypes/treatments, and any data on progression in pediatric patients. Please feel free to share – I’m trying to cast a wide net due to the rarity of this condition and how little is known. People can contact me directly at my first name (as written in my profile) at octant.bio.

Today we report Evo, a generalist foundation model for biology, on the cover of @ScienceMagazine. Trained on billions of DNA nucleotides, Evo was designed to capture two key aspects of biology: the multi-modality of the central dogma and the multi-scale nature of evolution.

Congratulations, Dr. Reddy!! Major inspiration for me to pursue radiology. Fight on.✌️@RadiologyUSC

Excited to join @Ginkgo's Board of Directors. I've watched Ginkgo start out of MIT in 2008 and followed their journey closely over the years. I'm excited to work with @jrkelly @reshmapshetty and the rest of the team to make biology easier to engineer in the coming years.

Thrilled and honored to be this month's spotlight! Thanks to the @RSNA media team for the fantastic feature. @UCSFimaging @RadiologyUSC @KeckMedicineUSC

@bkkfields @RadiologyUSC @RSNA @UCSFimaging @KeckMedicineUSC Go Brandon!!! 🚀💎👏

We've started IND-enabling studies on a small molecule corrector for Rho-associated autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (Rho-adRP). I thought it would be fun to spend some time walking through our approach and why we are excited. Long 🧵1/

Excited to share our study and new analysis tools on simultaneously measuring transcription and mRNA translation with isoform-sensitivity using long-read sequencing. Congrats! @pratibhajagann_, @bRaNnAn_LAB, @JG_Underwood and friends! genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Octant 7th birthday party tonight. It’s been such a privilege to build with this crew over so long. ❤️

@davidkmyang Congrats, David!! Wish you all the best

Thrilled to share that I’ve joined the Lux Capital team! Looking forward to continue backing and building transformational life sciences companies

@Rajagopalan_Pri @RadiologyUSC Thank you, Dr. Rajagopalan! I'm looking forward to learning more neurorads from you. 🥳

@johnnyleebio @RadiologyUSC Congrats Johnny! :)

So excited to learn from the best 😎@RadiologyUSC! #FightOn #KSOMMatch2024

@NeeleshBagrodia @OctantBio I learn from the best, Dr. Bagrodia 😎

@johnnyleebio @OctantBio Inspiring work as always Dr. Lee👏

Fantastic to be back @OctantBio. I’ve learned so much from this team since college, and I’m excited to be working on the clinical development of our corrector therapies. Check out what the Octonauts have been up to at octant.bio/pipeline

@srikosuri @OctantBio Always grateful for your mentorship @srikosuri!

So cool to see @OctantBio Apprentices boomerang after school; Johnny helped on everything, from a cloning machine to assembling furniture. He went to med school after, graduated and is now back working on biomarker/translational aspects of our lead programs! Time flies…

@haqueward Major congrats, Taseen!!

It’s giving…Grey’s Anatomy? So excited for the next 6 years. Plus, UW just got their newest Husky 😊

@BCDeadwiler @SIRspecialists @TherealDoctorJ @USC_Rads @USC_IR Congrats @BCDeadwiler!! 👏👏

Excited to share our findings on TIPS disparities at #SIR24SLC @SIRspecialists this year! Grateful for the support from @TherealDoctorJ and the fantastic @USC_Rads @USC_IR team! #SIR2024

It was really fun to have @jasonjoyride come by @OctantBio and spend some time with us to hear about what we are doing on an early Saturday morning.

@srikosuri @jasonjoyride @OctantBio @OctantBio team always rocking it!! 👏