Speaker Profile

Executive Summary：
Dr. Yi-Chung Lee is a senior neurologist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. His research focuses on neurogenetics and inherited neurological disorders, including hereditary ataxias, CMT, ALS, CADASIL, and NIID. Over the past two decades, Dr. Lee has established and investigated large clinical and genetic cohorts of patients with hereditary neurological diseases in Taiwan, integrating phenotyping, neuroimaging, and molecular genetics. His contributions to hereditary ataxia include the discovery of KCND3 mutations causing spinocerebellar ataxia type 22 and defining the genetic landscape of spinocerebellar ataxias in 876 genetically confirmed Taiwanese patients. Dr. Lee is a former Chairperson of the Neurogenetics Section of the Taiwan Neurological Society and a recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Research Award from Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council and the 2026 Neurology Award from the Taiwan Neurological Society.

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