Jiyoung Lee receives CFAES Innovator of the Year Award

Lee awarded for research about pathogen transmission and exposure pathways and their impact on human health

Jiyoung Lee and students in lab

Jiyoung Lee is a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences in the College of Public Health and in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) Department of Food Science and Technology. She was awarded the CFAES Innovator of the Year award for her track record of conducting trend-setting research about pathogen transmission and exposure pathways and their impact on human health.

"When Dr. Lee looks at water, she uses an innovative approach, ‘One Health & One Water’ paradigm, to address multiple urgent issues, from harmful algal blooms and cyanotoxin control to antibiotic resistance spread and even SARS-CoV-2 with wastewater-based surveillance," the awards committee wrote.

"Dr. Lee’s innovations have wide-reaching impacts on human, animal, and environmental health. To fight the health threat of cyanobacteria blooms and toxins, she and her lab invented multiple tools, including a rapid cyanotoxin measurement method that is ten times cheaper than the conventional method and the application of cyanophage and UV for bloom control. More recently, Dr. Lee and her student invented an autonomous water drone equipped with UV-C LED for on-site treatment."

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