page_title: W. P. Andrew Lee
section_title: Research
hierarchical_section_title: W. P. Andrew Lee / Research
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. W. P. Andrew Lee with Bonnie Amos, Brendan Marrocco, and Commandant of the Marine Corps James Amos in 2013.
context_page_description: Wei-Ping Andrew Lee is a Chinese-American hand surgeon and medical researcher. He is presently the dean of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and executive vice president for academic affairs and provost of UT Southwestern Medical Center. Lee focuses on translational research on immune modulation for vascularized composite allotransplantation and the implementation of protocols to minimize immunosuppression in hand transplant and other VCA programs.
context_section_description: A hand surgeon and translational researcher, Lee investigates tolerance strategy for vascularized composite allografts (VCA) to ameliorate the need for long-term systemic immunosuppression. He has been principal investigator on numerous federal research grants totaling over $10 million. 
  Lee established multidisciplinary programs for hand transplantation at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pittsburgh using an immunomodulatory protocol based upon the work from his laboratory. In 2010, he led the surgical team that performed the first bilateral hand transplant and the first trans-humeral transplant in the United States. A key feature of the protocol is single-agent immunosuppression that aims to minimize the long-term risks of VCA. He has led one of the largest hand and arm transplant programs in the field, and his group was especially focused on restoring functions to military servicemen with upper extremity amputations that resulted from combat injuries.
  In March 2018, Lee oversaw the team that performed the world’s first total penis and scrotum transplant. The operation included transplants of the penis, scrotum, and abdominal wall to a wounded serviceman and was the most complex surgery of its type.
  Lee has authored about 230 original peer-reviewed publications and 40 textbook chapters and co-edited the book Transplantation of Composite Tissue Allografts, (2008). He has served on the editorial boards of Transplantation, Journal of Surgical Research' and Hand. He co-founded Vascularized Composite Allo-transplantation in 2014 and serves as its co-Editor.
caption: Lee with Bonnie Amos, Brendan Marrocco, and Commandant of the Marine Corps James Amos in 2013.
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