@IsaacLeeLab

Assistant Professor @ Cornell Biomedical Engineering, Organ-on-Chip, Lymphatics, Cancer, Neurological Disease (eye and brain)

Ithaca, NY
Joined August 2019
Excited to share our latest in @NatureCVR (@NaturePortfolio) led by @RenhaoLu @CornellBME @CornellEng @Cornell on a first-in-kind "Eye lymphatics-on-a-chip" system to understand glaucoma, a major cause of blindness. Free access to the article: rdcu.be/eCFRM
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Proud to share we’ve reached the Top Ten Best Graduate Programs in Biomedical Engineering by @usnews ...a milestone built over 20 years of vision, dedication, & the outstanding work of our faculty, students, & staff, all advancing growth and engineering better health. Cheers!
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PeopleSoft founder David A. Duffield gives $371.5 million gift to Cornell. The Ivy League university will name its engineering school after him wsj.com/us-news/education/co… via @WSJ
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Also hot 🔥 off the press in @LabonaChip:  Yansong Peng and @IsaacLeeLab of @CornellBME review organ-on-a-chip devices for studying the human lymphatic system. By recreating key aspects of lymphatic physiology in vitro, these human-relevant tools can be used to model a wide array of diseases affected by the lymphatic system, including lymphedema, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, cancer metastasis, neurological and glymphatic disorders, and metabolic syndromes. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Esak (Isaac) Lee retweeted
We are excited to announce the Oxford Glymphatics & Brain Clearance Symposium, from March 30 - April 1, 2026, with an exciting slate of confirmed speakers. Join us this Spring in this storied setting! oxfordglymphaticsymposium.co… #oxfordbrainclearance
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Esak (Isaac) Lee retweeted
October scenes from Cornell.
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🎃 The Cornell BMES board @CornellBME @CUbmes invites you to our Monthly Social Hour this Thursday, Oct 30th, 4:30–5:30 PM in Weill 125! 🍬👻 Enjoy Halloween-themed snacks and a casual cornhole competition. All grad students and faculty are welcome — come relax and connect!
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We’re proud of our @CUbmes grad students and @BMESociety members! 💪 Their passion for outreach and community made a real impact last week as they cleaned up our local streets with @NYSDOT’s #AdoptAHighway. #CommunityService #CornellBME
Another shout-out to our caring and motivated @BMESociety @CUbmes graduate student organization who, as part of their dedication and outreach and community service, last week cleaned up the streets through the @NYSDOT #adoptahighway #garbage #communityservice.
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Join us for the 2025 BMES Symposium! Friday, Oct 24 | Weill Hall. A full day of inspiration — from student flash talks to interactive workshops and a keynote by Dr. Michael McCoy! @CornellBME @CUbmes Topics include mentorship, PhD design, and bridging science with patient needs!
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Excited to attend the ISER/BrightFocus Glaucoma Symposium 2025 next week! Looking forward to connecting with glaucoma physicians & scientists and sharing our glaucoma-on-a-chip system with the community. #Glaucoma @_BrightFocus nature.com/articles/s44161-0… iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org
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The Cornell BMES graduate student chapter @CUbmes organized the social event to build up the community @CornellBME. I am honored to work with them as a faculty advisor.
Thank you @CornellBME @IsaacLeeLab for hosting the BME Social Hour yesterday! It was a much-needed break and a great chance to relax and catch up with everyone. The pizza was definitely my favorite part!
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Esak (Isaac) Lee retweeted
BREAKING NEWS❗ NIH establishes nation's first dedicated organoid development center to reduce reliance on animal modeling. bit.ly/4pBYT9T
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of NAE’s The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering program. As we reflect on 30 years of impact and leadership, we also celebrate the vibrant community it has built for the future of engineering: ow.ly/FiKc50X1OS2 @FrontiersNAE
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Dr. Jian-Fu Chen and colleagues identified lymphatic vessels at the skull periosteum and found no evidence of lymphatic vessels in the cortical bones or skull bone marrow, where the lymphatic marker VEGFR3 labels blood vessels. 💀 bit.ly/4gDjTc9
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Esak (Isaac) Lee retweeted
At 2:19 p.m. today, the sun crosses the equator, and the season of autumn officially begins. We choose to start our autumnal celebration a few hours early.
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