Dr. S. Lee Life Sciences
Rigor in science. Clarity in strategy.

A scientist's rigor.
A strategist's clarity.
An operator's hands.

Where bench science meets commercial decisions.
Independent practice for life sciences teams scaling across EMEA and Asia.

Commercial strategy, scientific advisory, and digital infrastructure,
shaped to your stack and your context.

Seungeun Lee, PhD, PRINCE2 7 Practitioner
Founder & Principal, Dr. S. Lee Life Sciences

Demo live · 2-week tour

Sense 2026

Drafts arrive fast. The send stays yours.

  1. Step 1 Demo ~2 wks
  2. Step 2 Build 4–8 wks
  3. Step 3 Live ongoing

An agentic AI workspace by a life-sciences scientist. Lives on your server, routes through your team's stages, drafts with cited sources. Tailored to your domain's taxonomy and team's language.

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The practice

Research questions. Technical execution. Commercial decisions.

Bench-credible scientific depth from wet-lab to bioinformatics, with database architecture and agentic AI workspace design across technical and commercial operations data platforms. Paired with commercial leadership and Europe–Asia operating fluency, engagements support life-science teams scaling across EMEA and Asia. From discovery through alignment to delivery, on one thread, scoped to deliverables. Fractional advisory or project-based, where it fits.

How it works
01 Discovery 30 min – 1 hr 02 Alignment At your pace 03 Delivery Project to ongoing

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Commercial Strategy & Partnerships

  • Europe–Asia go-to-market and partnerships, with B2B/B2C, channel, and distribution strategies
  • Sales-operations data analysis, strategic direction & pricing optimization
  • Market sizing, ICP definition, pricing & positioning, channel and stakeholder strategy
  • Workshops & capability programs
Talk about commercial strategy
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Technical & Scientific Advisory

  • Experimental design & troubleshooting from wet-lab to bioinformatics across clinical, environmental, food-safety: NGS, molecular biology, cell, microbial, animal, field
  • Method validation & proficiency testing
  • Peer-reviewed manuscripts, technical reports, proposals & regulatory documentation
  • Workshops & capability programs
Talk about a research project

Any of these can take the partnership shape that fits. Explore partnership →

Working together

Different ways in.

Different ways to engage the practice areas: senior advisory for commercial or scientific verification/validation, co-building existing or new threads, contract engineering on bounded scopes, or student research on capstone or thesis topics. Different doors, same workshop, same hands.

Senior Advisory

A senior second read, right-sized to your scope.

Consulting firms, expert networks, and research organizations engaging a senior advisor for commercial or scientific verification/validation on flexibly scoped engagements. The three practice areas travel with the engagement: commercial strategy (Europe–Asia market entry, ICP and stakeholder validation, pricing and positioning input), technical and scientific advisory (across clinical, environmental, food-safety and adjacent life-sciences briefings, method and workflow validation, regulatory landscape), and digital infrastructure (data platform architecture, LIMS and biobank systems, agentic AI adoption).

Market research & intelligence ICP & stakeholder mapping Method, workflow & assay validation Regulatory strategy & compliance Agentic AI & LLM adoption
Scope an advisory engagement

Co-builder

A build partner for the thread you're shaping.

R&D or commercial leaders in biotech, genomics, diagnostics, or pharma who'd rather build something with someone than navigate alone. Two paths fit: shape an existing build (Sense 2026 is the active build, currently open for exploring teams and more topics in the pipeline), or co-create something new that complements the practice, around your own thesis about a tool, infrastructure, program, or service in life sciences. Several shapes are possible, from project collaboration to deeper alignment, with hands-on support for partnership development and project structuring along the way.

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Project Engineer

Bounded engineering scopes, paid and credited.

Engineer interested in shipping bounded scope across agentic AI tooling (active build: Sense 2026), database architecture and integration, or operations data platform work (LIMS, SAP, Power BI, SharePoint, or others). Comfortable in Python, R, Docker, or Git workflows. ML or AI background welcome but not required; strong craft in pipelines, schemas, system integration, or curation work is equally valuable. Paid contract engagement, collaboration credit. Domain context (biology, NGS, healthcare data) is a plus. First contracts are forming around active workstreams, with more in the pipeline.

Pitch a project scope

Student Researcher

Mentored projects at the AI × life-sciences edge.

Undergrad or grad student in CS, life sciences, or related fields, looking for hands-on experience at the agentic AI and life sciences intersection. Capstone projects, master's thesis topics, summer internships across clinical, environmental, food-safety, or commercial-operations contexts. We define the scope together; you get structured mentorship and a real project to point at. Initial student threads are forming around current projects, with more topics in the pipeline.

Bring a thesis or capstone idea
Where I've operated

Two tracks, one practice.

A scientist who codes and speaks the domain vocabulary. The combination came from academia before (bio-)informatics existed: self-practicing R, Python, and Java at the bench set a through-line of fifteen years across research benches, regulatory bodies, and commercial leadership. Scientific work spans clinical, environmental, and food-safety domains, with peer-reviewed publications and EU Reference Laboratory studies from wet-lab to bioinformatics. Commercial work covers EMEA market entry, partnerships, pricing, forecasting, and sales direction, leading multidisciplinary teams across sales, project management, lab, and bioinformatics. Across both tracks, the combination shaped digital infrastructure (genomic reference database, biobank, LIMS, SAP) and the organization-wide documentation and compliance system under ISO 17025/9001. Operational vocabulary came from holding each role in the chain (bench scientist, bioinformatician, ops executive, commercial lead), forming the translation layer that tailors deployment to each context, not one-size-fits-all, now in agentic AI tooling (Sense 2026).

Seungeun Lee
Seungeun Lee, PhD
Founder & Principal
Dr. S. Lee Life Sciences
May 2026 – Current

Independent practice designing agentic AI flows and digital infrastructure for life sciences teams, from lab operations through commercial. Senior advisory engagements span three overlapping areas (commercial strategy and partnerships, technical and scientific advisory including R&D research support, and digital infrastructure tailored to each team's stack), supporting biotech and the broader R&D community scaling across EMEA and Asia.

Education
PhD, Public Health
Seoul National University  ·  2016
MSc, Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Science
Seoul National University  ·  2013
BSc, Food and Nutrition
BSc, Biology
Yonsei University  ·  2011
Research record
Certifications
PRINCE2 7 Foundation Certified PRINCE2 7 Practitioner Certified
Also: ISO 17025 auditing · IATA DGR · Big Data Insight · Linux for Biologists
Scientific Commercial Both
USDA WHNRCResearch Assistant Genome Research Center, SNU HospitalMSc Researcher Environmental Health Eng. Lab, SNUPhD Researcher PBL NetherlandsGuest Researcher Wageningen Food Safety ResearchResearcher Genomics  ·  Data Scientist Macrogen EuropeSenior PM  ·  Head of Project Management Builders StudioEntrepreneur in Residence Dr. S. Lee Life SciencesFounder & Principal
2009 2013 2017 2021 2026
Commercial Leadership 2021 – 2026
Mar 2026 – May 2026
Builders Studio
Entrepreneur in Residence

Domain research, ICP definition, and customer development for an early-stage AI SaaS exploration in life sciences. Mapped senior buyer dynamics and market entry mechanisms across R&D and biotech services globally.

Rotterdam, Netherlands
Both tracks
Feb 2021 – Feb 2026
Macrogen Europe
Senior Project Manager  ·  Head of Project Management

EMEA commercialization of scientific innovations. B2B/B2C partnerships, pricing and branding strategy, fiscal planning, revenue forecasting. ISO-compliant systems and LIMS-based documentation. Reporting infrastructure with SAP and Power BI. Multidisciplinary leadership across sales, project management, lab operations, and bioinformatics.

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Research & Regulation 2009 – 2021
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021
Wageningen Food Safety Research
Stitching Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit
Researcher Genomics  ·  Data Scientist

Genomic surveillance of food-borne pathogenic microbes using Illumina and Nanopore sequencing, with Python, R, Docker, and Git workflows. EU Reference Laboratory inter-laboratory studies and proficiency-test evaluations on Shiga toxin–producing and pathogenic E. coli, and Listeria monocytogenes. Biobank database infrastructure on LIMS, RDBMS, and Jupyter.

Wageningen, Netherlands
Apr 2016 – Oct 2016
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Guest Researcher

Curated metadata to refine the GLOBIO-Aquatic Projection model. Applied R for variable analysis, regression modelling, and dataset alignment.

Bilthoven, Netherlands
Mar 2013 – Feb 2016
Environmental Health Engineering Lab
Seoul National University
PhD Researcher, Public Health

Built a laboratory from the ground up to optimize in vitro and in silico workflows. Refined NGS data with bioinformatics tools to identify environmental pathogens and improve microbial molecular identification.

Seoul, Korea
Mar 2011 – Feb 2013
Genome Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Disease
Seoul National University Hospital
MSc Student Researcher, Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Science

Molecular and clinical research on diabetes and endocrine disease. Cell culture, differentiation, and drug treatments. Animal handling for in vivo studies. qPCR, bioluminescent assays, immunoblotting, and protein extraction. Cloning workflows including DNA fragment design, insertion, and digestion.

Seoul, Korea
Jul 2009 – Dec 2009
Western Human Nutrition Research Center - USDA
University of California, Davis
Research Assistant

Undergraduate research placement supporting nutrition and health studies. Handled laboratory equipment, chemicals, and animal models for in vivo nutrition research.

Davis, USA
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Seungeun Lee

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