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| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
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| Awards | Tall poppy award (2010) |
| Website | https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/eflee  |
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| Fields | Autophagy, Bcl-2 |
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Erinna Lee is a Singaporean molecular biologist specializing in apoptosis and autophagy. [1] [2]
Erinna Lee was born in Singapore and moved to Australia after high school.[ citation needed ] She was educated at University of Melbourne, studying a BSc(hons) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from 2000-2004. She studied her PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, [1] which was awarded in 2007 by the University of Melbourne. [3] [4] It was during this PhD where she began research on programmed cell death, which would form a large part of her subsequent research career. [1]
After completing her PhD, Lee worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the WEHI until 2015. She then moving to work at La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, [4] becoming a laboratory head there in 2016 as well as being made a visiting scientist at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute. [5]
Lee's research focuses on cell death and survival, and in particular the role of the BCL-2 protein and its associated homolog family. This is typically via characterising protein-protein interactions in the BCL-2 signalling pathway via structural characterisation of the constituent proteins (both X-ray and NMR methods) as well as biochemical and biophysical characterisation of their interactions. [6] She then applies this information to animal models to understand the contributions of these proteins to normal physiology and disease. [5] Lee’s research has subsequently extended into autophagy more broadly and its contributions to human biology. [4]
Erinna Lee was awarded a Tall poppy award in 2010, [7] [8] and the 2021 Shimadzu Research Medal by the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. [1]
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