Erinna Lee

Erinna Lee
Erinna Lee
Alma mater	University of Melbourne
Occupation	Molecular biologist ;
Awards	Tall poppy award (2010)
Website	https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/eflee
	Academic career
Fields	Autophagy, Bcl-2
Institutions	WEHI; La Trobe University; Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute;

Erinna Lee is a Singaporean molecular biologist specializing in apoptosis and autophagy.^[1]^[2]

Early life and education

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]

Career and impact

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]

Research

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]

Awards and honours

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]

References

Scholia has a profile for Erinna Lee (Q47713751).

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