Affiliation: Laboratory of Photobiology, Keio University School of Medicine & Keio University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology

Deokho Lee received a Bachelor's of Science in Biotechnology in College of Life Science at CHA University, South Korea in 2015. He earned his Master's of Science in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea in 2017. He worked in R&D Center ViroMed Co., Ltd. as a research scientist in peripheral neuropathy, until 2018, then he moved to the Institute of Endemic Diseases Medical Research Center at Seoul National University College of Medicine as a research assistant/lab manager in ophthalmology and parasitology, South Korea, up through 2020. Also, he participated in the Health Promoting Schools project and the Dr. LJW Fellowship program in Fiji and/or Lao PDR.

He is currently a PhD student/research assistant in the Laboratory of Photobiology in Department of Ophthalmology at Keio University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. Deokho Lee focuses on how hypoxia/ischemia affects visual function using in vitro and in vivo experimental models, and studies developing various therapeutic approaches against vision loss, including hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) inhibition and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα) activation.