Dr Alice Lee

Dr N. Alice Lee is an Associate Professor in Food Science and Engineering in the School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). Before coming to UNSW Sydney, Assoc. Professor Lee worked in the U.S Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, College Station, TX, as a research chemist and as a research fellow at the University of Sydney. She serviced as Co-Director of ARC Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture from 2014 to 2020. Associate Professor Lee leads an active food and allergy research program. She is well-recognized for developing highly sensitive rapid immunodiagnostic tests for a wide range of targets including food allergens. In the area of food allergy, her primary research interests include characterizing new allergens using the proteomics and bioinformatics approach (molecular allergology), studying digestibility and gut permeability using in vitro and ex-vivo techniques, developing therapeutic foods/nutraceuticals and allergen delivery systems for allergy immunotherapy, and developing new allergen detection biosensors. She is a founder of the Food Allergen Management Symposium (FAMS), a biannual conference held in Australia. Currently, she is a chief investigator of the OPIA Trial– the Oral peanut immunotherapy, which is being conducted at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney.