Lezanne Ooi is a Professor in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience at the University of Wollongong, Australia and Group Leader of the Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration Lab. Her research speciality is cellular neuroscience and the regulation of neuronal function and neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases. The Ooi lab uses electrophysiology, imaging and a range of cell and molecular biology techniques to investigate disease mechanisms and for drug discovery, using induced pluripotent stem cells, tissue and disease models. She completed her PhD and post-doctoral training at the Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, University of Leeds, UK and has >6400 career citations, h-index 40. She is a Theme Leader of an ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology and leading grants from the Michael J Fox Foundation and US Department of Defense.