Lee is a Trainee Patent Attorney in the Sydney Biotechnology team, who joined FB Rice in 2011. Lee is particularly interested in assisting our agribusiness clients to develop strong IP rights to support commercialization of their technology.
Lee holds the degree of BScAg (Hons) from The University of Sydney majoring in animal production and genetics, and a PhD degree from The University of Sydney for his research on saltwater crocodile genetics conducted within the Faculty of Veterinary Science at University of Sydney and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory of the University of Georgia, USA. Lee has also been awarded the degree of Master of Intellectual Property by University of Technology, Sydney.
During Lee's postgraduate research, he identified quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for implementation by the crocodile farming industry in the selection of breeding animals that express traits of economic significance. Lee maintains his interest and involvement in this field in his capacity as an Honorary Associate and Principal Investigator at the Faculty of Veterinary Science of The University of Sydney. Lee has published his research in several peer-reviewed scientific journals, and presented at international conferences, and been an invited speaker at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
Following completion of his PhD research, Lee was employed by Sigma-Aldrich Corporation as a Technical Specialist, where he was involved in troubleshooting applications in relation to PCR, functional genomics, RNAi and genome editing for external clients.
