Katie N. Lee

(Nov. 20, 2006) Katie N. Lee—who is currently conducting research for her summa thesis in the lab of Cancer Center member Sharon Murphy, Ph.D.—was named a 2007 Rhodes Scholar. Lee, an honors senior majoring in biochemistry and chemistry, was also offered a prestigious Marshall Scholarship. Lee's project in Murphy's lab concerns the role of a group of enzymes known as cytochrome P450s in the metabolism of nicotine and carcinogens found in tobacco products. She plans to earn a doctoral degree in biochemistry at Oxford and to pursue a career as a physician scientist. Read the University of Minnesota news release.