Polona Le Quesne Stabej, PhD profile page

Dr. Polona Le Quesne Stabej is a senior research fellow at the University of Auckland and a principal investigator of a Pūtahi Manawa | Healthy Hearts for Aotearoa New Zealand (Centre of Research Excellence)-funded inherited cardiac diseases project. Her research focuses on families left without answers after standard genetic testing, using Oxford Nanopore long-read genome sequencing and advanced genomic analysis to uncover hidden causes of inherited heart conditions and sudden cardiac death in the young. By linking research sequencing, expert variant interpretation, and clinical teams she translates genomic discoveries into actionable diagnoses for patients and families in New Zealand.