Mei Kee Lee

Contact

• workRoom BB72 B-block
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+6 (03) 8924 8239
• MeiKee.Lee@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Dr Lee Mei Kee obtained her MPharm (Hons) and PhD from the University of Nottingham. After completing her PhD, she worked as a part-time teaching practitioner in the School of Pharmacy at University of Nottingham Malaysia, before joining as full-time staff in 2019. She is involved in teaching pharmacology and human physiology. Her research interests include:

• pharmacological activities of medicinal mushrooms- and plant-derived compounds on contractile smooth muscle
• the impact of microplastics on human health
• using Virtual Reality (VR) tool in teaching to enhance students learning experience

Dr Lee is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She is also a member of

• British Pharmacological Society (BPS)
• Malaysian Community Pharmacy Guild (MCPG)
• Malaysian Pharmacists Society (MPS)

Teaching Summary

Dr Lee is the module convenor of the following modules: PHAR1011 Dyspepsia and LIFE1052 Human Physiology.

Research Summary

Her research interests include:

• pharmacological activities of medicinal mushrooms- and plant-derived compounds on contractile smooth muscle
• the impact of microplastics on human health
• using Virtual Reality (VR) tool in teaching to enhance students learning experience

Recent Publications

• YIN YING MAK, FONG KAI LEE, MEI KEE LEE, YVONNE MBAKI, SUE MIAN THEN, CHEE SUM ALVIN YAP, SHIN YEE FUNG, CIN KONG, KUAN HON LIM and KANG NEE TING, 2023. Vasorelaxation profile of PM20, a schwarzinicine A analogue, in hypertensive and diabetic rat model and its effect on the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans In: British Journal of PharmacologyVolume 180: Abstracts of the 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 2023. 546-548
• BEE YEAN LOW, KANG NEE TING and MEI KEE LEE, 2023. Knowledge, attitude and practice of community pharmacists towards household pharmaceutical waste disposal. The International journal of pharmacy practice. 31(2), 261–265
• PANG, LI-YIN, LEE, MEI-KEE, KONG, BOON HONG, FUNG, SHIN-YEE, NG, SZU TING, TAN, CHON SENG, THEN, SUE-MIAN, LIM, KUAN-HON, ROBERTS, RICHARD and TING, KANG-NEE, 2022. Chinese Caterpillar Mushroom, Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Ascomycota), Cold-Water Extract Relaxes the Rat Isolated Bladder INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS. 24(3), 1-14
• BOOI, HAN -NI, LEE, MEI-KEE, FUNG, SHIN-YEE, NG, SZU-TING, TAN, CHON-SENG, LIM, KUAN-HON, ROBERTS, RICHARD and TING, KANG-NEE, 2022. Medicinal Mushrooms and Their Use to Strengthen Respiratory Health during and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS. 24(10), 1-14

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• YIN YING MAK, FONG KAI LEE, MEI KEE LEE, YVONNE MBAKI, SUE MIAN THEN, CHEE SUM ALVIN YAP, SHIN YEE FUNG, CIN KONG, KUAN HON LIM and KANG NEE TING, 2023. Vasorelaxation profile of PM20, a schwarzinicine A analogue, in hypertensive and diabetic rat model and its effect on the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans In: British Journal of PharmacologyVolume 180: Abstracts of the 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 2023. 546-548
• BEE YEAN LOW, KANG NEE TING and MEI KEE LEE, 2023. Knowledge, attitude and practice of community pharmacists towards household pharmaceutical waste disposal. The International journal of pharmacy practice. 31(2), 261–265
• PANG, LI-YIN, LEE, MEI-KEE, KONG, BOON HONG, FUNG, SHIN-YEE, NG, SZU TING, TAN, CHON SENG, THEN, SUE-MIAN, LIM, KUAN-HON, ROBERTS, RICHARD and TING, KANG-NEE, 2022. Chinese Caterpillar Mushroom, Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Ascomycota), Cold-Water Extract Relaxes the Rat Isolated Bladder INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS. 24(3), 1-14
• BOOI, HAN -NI, LEE, MEI-KEE, FUNG, SHIN-YEE, NG, SZU-TING, TAN, CHON-SENG, LIM, KUAN-HON, ROBERTS, RICHARD and TING, KANG-NEE, 2022. Medicinal Mushrooms and Their Use to Strengthen Respiratory Health during and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS. 24(10), 1-14
• CHAN, ZI-YANG, KRISHNAN, PREMANAND, MODARESI, SAYED MOHAMMADHOSSEIN, HII, LING-WEI, MAI, CHUN-WAI, LIM, WEI-MENG, LEONG, CHEE-ONN, LOW, YUN-YEE, WONG, SOON-KIT, YONG, KIEN-THAI, LEONG, ALYSSA ZI-XIN, LEE, MEI-KEE, TING, KANG-NEE and LIM, KUAN-HON, 2021. Monomeric, Dimeric, and Trimeric Tropane Alkaloids from Pellacalyx saccardianus JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS. 84(8), 2272-2281
• MEI-KEE LEE, KUAN-HON LIM, PAUL MILLNS, SURESH KUMAR MOHANKUMAR, SZU-TING NG, CHON-SENG TAN, SUE-MIAN THEN and YVONNE MBAKI, 2018. Bronchodilator effects of Lignosus rhinocerotis extract on rat isolated airways is linked to the blockage of calcium entry Phytomedicine. 42, 172-179
• KAYATRI GOVINDARAJU, MEI KEE LEE, YVONNE MBAKI and TING KANG NEE, 2018. Intracellular stored calcium plays a minor role in Gq-coupled receptor-mediated contraction in rat airway smooth muscle Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine. 2, 13
• LEE, MEI KEE, LI, XIAOJIE, YAP, ALVIN CHEE SUM, CHEUNG, PETER CHI KEUNG, TAN, CHON SENG, NG, SZU TING, ROBERTS, RICHARD, TING, KANG NEE and FUNG, SHIN YEE, 2018. Airway Relaxation Effects of Water-Soluble Sclerotial Extract From Lignosus rhinocerotis FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY. 9,
• LEE, MEI-KEE, MILLNS, PAUL, MBAKI, YVONNE, NG, SZU-TING, TAN, CHON-SENG, LIM, KUAN-HON, THEN, SUE-MIAN, MOHANKUMAR, SURESH KUMAR and TING, KANG-NEE, 2018. Data on the Lignosus rhinocerotis water soluble sclerotial extract affecting intracellular calcium level in rat dorsal root ganglion cells DATA IN BRIEF. 18, 1322-1326
• LEE, MEI KEE, RICHARD ROBERTS and TING, KANG NEE, 2018. Bronchodilator effects of medicinal mushrooms used in traditional medicine. In: Medicinal mushrooms: Cultivation, properties and role in health and disease Nova Science, New York.
• GOVINDARAJU K, LEE MK, TAN CS, NG ST, LOH HS, THEN SM and MOHANKUMAR SK, 2018. Lignosus rhinocerotis water-soluble sclerotial extract relaxes rat isolated aortae In: International Conference on Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine.