Won-Ha Lee is a Professor at the BK21 Plus KNU Creative BioResearch Group, School of Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University. He earned his Ph.D. in Immunology at the Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas at Austin in 1993. He served as a Senior Research Associate at the Cancer Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine (1994–1997), a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clinical Research Center, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute (1997–2001), a Research Professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine (2000–2001), a Senior Research Associate at the Cardiovascular Institute, Samsung Seoul Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine (2000–2001), an Assistant Professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University (2001–2002), a Visiting Scientist at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2002–2003), and joined Kyungpook National University in 2003. The research focus in his laboratory centers on the immunologic aspects of human diseases, with a particular emphasis on epitranscriptomics and its role in the interaction between mitochondrial dysfunction and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress.