Lee Wallace obtained her BSc (Hons) in Anatomical and Physiological Sciences from Dundee University. Lee then went on to complete an MSc at Edinburgh Napier University in Biomedical Sciences. She joined our lab in 2010 and received her PhD in October 2013. The title of her thesis was “Mechanical regulation and characterisation of murine keratinocyte stem cells in vitro”.
Lee was awarded the Institute of Cellular Medicine prize for the best publication by a student (2012). In addition, she won the North East Postgraduate (NEPG) Conference poster prize (2012).
In 2014 Lee has taken up a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Physiology and Biophysics at the University at Buffalo, NY, USA and is currently working on Parkinson's disease.