Rate My Professor Jacqui Lee

Jacqui Lee serves as a Senior Research Technician in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch campus. She is affiliated with the Christchurch Heart Institute, where she works as part of the technical staff in the Translational Biodiscovery Laboratory. This laboratory specializes in translational biodiscovery research, focusing on the development of novel biomarker assays for the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases, particularly cardiovascular conditions. The team utilizes advanced technologies including radioimmunoassay (RIA), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), Luminex, Roche Cobas, and Brahms Kryptor platforms, along with facilities for cell culture and isolated heart studies. The laboratory complies with FDA requirements and ISO15189 standards, and collaborates on commercial studies with companies such as Roche, Abbott, Sphingotec, and ThermoFisher. Assays developed in the laboratory include those for atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP), C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), neutral endopeptidase (NEP), adrenomedullin, angiotensin II, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE), plasma renin activity, arginine vasopressin, ACTH, cortisol, aldosterone, endothelin, cGMP, cAMP, catecholamines, ghrelin peptides, and signal peptide fragments.