Sung June Lee received his bachelor's degree in integrative biology from University of California Berkeley. He did an internship at Cedars-Sinai where he mainly worked with an immunotherapy targeting brain tumors. In October 2019, he joined the laboratory of Srividya Swaminathan, Ph.D., at City of Hope as a research associate. His current research is focused on searching a novel mechanism and biomarkers in MYC-driven leukemia.