Rate My Professor Ronald Lee

Dr. Ronald Lee is a Senior Lecturer in the Malaysia School of Pharmacy at Monash University. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the National University of Singapore in 2010. He completed pre-registration pharmacist training at Changi General Hospital from 2010 to 2011 and worked as a research assistant in the Department of Pharmacy at the National University of Singapore from 2011 to 2012, developing zebrafish models for xenobiotic metabolism studies. In 2017, he obtained his PhD from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, researching mass spectrometry applications for transition metal-based anti-cancer compounds. From 2017 to 2018, he served as a postdoctoral fellow and research fellow at the National Cancer Centre Singapore, establishing a single-cell genomics core facility. He joined Monash University Malaysia as a lecturer and advanced to Senior Lecturer.

Dr. Lee's research applies chemical, biochemical, and analytical approaches to food security and human health challenges, focusing on proteins in drug action and disease, proteomics for disease aetiology, natural product formulations, aquaculture viral pathogens, and ionic liquids in processing. Current projects involve compounded medication stability, psoriasis microbial dynamics, Engkabang cosmeceuticals, feline tramadol transdermal delivery, and antibiotic activation with metal complexes. He teaches PHR1022 (How Medicines Work II), PHR2021 (How Medicines Work III), and PHR2042 (Comprehensive Care III - Endocrinology and Renal). Awards include Best Poster at Borneo Education Research Conference 2021 and TransformED 2020 for COVID-19 teaching innovations, Vice-Provost’s Education commendations for PHR2021 (2022, 2023), and PVC’s Commendation for Excellence in Education (2021). Key publications: "Effectiveness of cholinium amino acid ionic liquids for the extraction of phytonutrients from palm oil" (Royal Society Open Science, 2025), "Pharmacy students’ perspective on remote flipped classrooms in Malaysia" (Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2025), "Proteomic profiling of the Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus infection" (Aquaculture, 2025), "Comparison between GPT-4 and human raters in grading pharmacy students' exam responses" (2025), and "Barriers to Healthcare Access for Indigenous Communities" (Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2026). His work supports UN SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being.