GENETICS OF THE CHOROID AND IMPACT ON EYE HEALTH
Dr Samantha Lee,
Senior Research Fellow
Lions Eye Institute &
The University of Western Australia,
Perth, Western Australia
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Filmed in Perth, Australia | September 2025
Dr Samantha Lee is a Senior Research Fellow at Lions Eye Institute and the University of Western Australia. Dr Lee obtained her PhD in 2017 and the Queensland University of Technology and has since been working on the genetics and environmental causes of various eye diseases, with a focus on glaucoma and myopia. She has published 57 full-length scientific papers and her work has been cited over 1,000 times. She serves on the Editorial Board for the journal BMC Ophthalmology and Scientific Reports, and on the Research Advisory Committee for the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia.
Dr Lee’s research is being supported by the Western Australia Future Health Research and Innovation Fund (2024–27), Medical Research Future Fund (2025–27), Perth Eye Foundation (2024), and the Lions Eye Institute Strategic Funding (2024).
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