The Kelly Group

Dr. Jeffery W. Kelly

Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry

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• B.S. Chemistry (1982); State University of New York, College at Fredonia (Tom Harris)
• Ph.D. Organic Chemistry (1986); University of North Carolina (Slayton A. Evans, Jr.)
• NIH Postdoctoral Training (1987-1989); The Rockefeller University (E. Thomas Kaiser)

• Board of Overseers, The Scripps Research Institute, 2021-present
• Faculty repesentative, Board of directors, The Scripps Research Institute, 2019-2021
• Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research institute, 2018
• Chairman of the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 2008-2018
• Chair of the Board, The Skaggs Institute for Research, 2008-2010
• Dean Graduate and Postgraduate Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, 2006-2008
• Dean and Vice President Academic Affairs, The Scripps Research Institute, 2001-2006
• Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 1997-present
• Cofounder-FoldRx Pharmaceuticals (Boston, MA), 2003 (with Dr. Susan Lindquist, MIT)
• Cofounder-Proteostasis Therapeutics (Boston, MA), 2007 (with Dr. Andrew Dillin, Salk, and Dr. Richard Morimoto, Northwestern University)
• President of the Protein Society, 2005-2007
• Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 1997
• Visiting Investigator, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute, summer 1996
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 1995-1997
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 1989-1995

• Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, 2022
• Royal Society Robert Robinson Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry–SuFEx team, 2021
• American Chemical Society, Medicinal Chemistry Div., Edward E. Smissman Award, 2021
• American Chemical Society, Medicinal Chemistry Division Hall of Fame Election, 2019
• E.B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances, 2019
• National Academy of Inventors, elected Fellow, 2017
• American Institute of Chemists Chemical Pioneer Award, 2017
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016
• Jacob and Louise Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, 2016
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected Member, 2016
• Royal Society of Chemistry Jeremy Knowles Award, 2016
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected member, 2016
• Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, 2016
• Murray Goodman Memorial Prize, Biopolymers, 2012
• Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry, The American Chemical Society, 2012
• Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, The Protein Society, 2011
• Vincent du Vigneaud Award, The American Peptide Society, 2008
• National Institutes of Health Merit Award, 2006
• American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2001
• State University of New York at Fredonia Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, 2000
• State University of New York at Fredonia Chemistry Department Alumni Award, 2000
• The Protein Society-Dupont Young Investigator Award, 1999
• The Biophysical Society National Lecturer (Award), 1999
• Texas A&M University Honors Program Teacher/Scholar Award, 1994-1995
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1994
• Searle Scholar Award, 1991-1994
• NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Rockefeller University, 1987-1989
• American Chemical Society Rohm and Haas Organic Division Fellowship, 1985-1986
• American Chemical Society North Carolina Centennial Scholarship, 1986
• American Institutes of Chemists Outstanding Senior in Chemistry, 1982

• UCSF Graduate Program Review, 2008-present
• Board of Directors, Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, 2007-2010
• Coorganizer Banbury Conference on Functional and Pathologic Amyloids, 2007
• Board Member, Prion, 2006-present
• Scientific Advisor, Amyloidosis Research Foundation, 2006-present
• NIH Special Emphasis Panel on Cell Biology, 2006
• Coorganizer Joint Keystone Symposia on Alzheimer's Disease: Genes, Cellular Pathways and Therapies, and Protein Misfolding, with Lindquist, Tanzi and Lee, 2006
• Facilitated FDA and NIH funded diflunisal clinical trial on Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy, 2005
• Meeting Chair American Peptide Symposium, 2005
• Board Member, International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2004-present
• Chairman NIH Roadmap Initiative Screening Assay Development Study Section, 2004
• American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training, 2003
• The Celiac Sprue Research Foundation Scientific Advisory Board Member, 2002-present
• Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology External Advisory Committee, 2002-present
• Scientific Advisory Board Provid Pharmaceuticals Inc., 2002-present
• Rockefeller University Graduate Program Review, 2001
• Hereditary Disease Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, 2001-2006
• Chairman NIH Bioorganic and Natural Products Study Section, 1998-2000
• Chairman NIH Special Study Section on Protein Structure, Function and Aging, 1999
• Protein Science Editorial Advisory Board, 1999-present
• Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Board of Consulting Editors, 2004-2009
• Biopolymers Editorial Board and Advisory Board, 2001-present
• NIH-NINDS Planning Committee on Neurodegenerative Diseases, 1998-present
• Co-Chair Chemistry and Biology of Peptides Gordon Conference, 2002
• Co-Chair Peptide Chemistry as a Life Science Symposium, 2000
• Co-Organizer Protein Society Meeting (Boston, MA), 1999
• Advisory Board International Symposium on Human Amyloid Diseases, 1999
• NIH Bioorganic and Natural Products Study Section Member, 1996-1998
• Volume Editor Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry (Vol 4)
• Organizing Committee Self Assembling Peptides in Biology Medicine (Crete, Greece), 1999
• Program Committee 16^th American Peptide Symposium (Minneapolis), 1999
• Scientific Advisory Board VIII^th International Symposium on Amyloidosis, 1998
• NIH Aging Study Section, 1997, 1998, 1999-Ad Hoc
• Co-Organizer NIH-National Institute on Aging Workshop "Peptide and Protein Integrity: Special Features in Aging and Disease"
• External Reviewer Veterans Association Intramural Program
• Alzheimer's Association Study Section, 1996-1997
• NIH Bioorganic Chemistry and Related Sciences Special Study Section, 1996
• NIH Medical Biochemistry Study Section Ad Hoc Reviewer, 1996
• Co-Founder FASEB Summer Research Conference On "Amyloid and Other Abnormal Protein Assembly Processes", 1995
• National Institutes of Health Bioorganic and Natural Products Study Section, 1995-Ad Hoc
• Editorial Board Journal of Amyloidosis, 1994-present
• Scientific Advisory Board International Symposium on FAP and Related Diseases
• Consultant Parke Davis, 1996-2001
• Consultant Praecis Pharmaceuticals, 1996-2000
• Consultant Hoffmann-LaRoche Allergy and Inflammation, 1996-1997

• At Texas A&M University
  • Senior Seminar, 1996
  • Mechanistic Organic Chemistry, 1989-1991
  • Organic Seminar, 1989-1991
  • The Chemistry of Peptides and Proteins, 1990
  • Advanced Organic Chemistry (Undergraduate), 1991
  • Bioorganic (Enzyme) Reaction Mechanisms, 1992
  • Spectroscopic Identification of Organic Compounds, 1993-1996
  • Special Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, Spring 1997
  • Majors Organic Laboratory Course With Lecture, 1990, 1992, 1994-1995
  • Non-Majors Organic Laboratory, 1995
• At The Scripps Research Institute
  • Physical Organic Chemistry (co-responsible for yearly course 1998-2000 with Professor Rebek)
  • Structure and Chemistry (2-3 lectures every year)
  • Chemical Biology I (responsible for the entire course every other year)
  • Organic Spectroscopy (responsible for the NMR portion of the course)
  • Bioorganic Chemistry II (responsible for the entire course 2003)
  • Chemical Biology (responsible for 50% of 2006 course)
  • Neuroscience (a few lectures per year)

• Chair, Molecular and Experimental Medicine, 2008- present
• Chair of the Board, The Skaggs Institute for Research, 2008-2010
• Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs, 2001-2006
• Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies, 2006-2008
• Associate Dean, 2000-2001
• Chair Graduate Recruiting Chemistry Program, 1998-2000
• Chemical Biology course co-ordinator, 1997-present
• Chair Re-accreditation Curriculum Subcommittee for both Graduate Programs at Scripps, 1997