Lee Sweeney

Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology at Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania

Position in Extended Committee - Preclinical Expert

H. Lee Sweeney, Ph.D., is the William Maul Measey Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology at Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He is working to develop therapies for the skeletal and cardiac muscle aspects of muscular dystrophies using both small molecule and gene therapy approaches. Dr. Sweeney is the Director of a Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.