Head of Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London UK
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/kelly.john
John Kelly has been Professor of Molecular Biology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 2005 and Head of the Pathogen Molecular Biology Department since 2010. The Kelly group were the first to report the transfection of the American trypanosome Trypanosoma cruzi and have a long record in the development genetic tools for this parasite. He has published widely in the areas of trypanosome biochemistry, chromosome structure and function, and the mechanisms of drug action and resistance. A major focus of his current research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative is the development and optimisation in vivo imaging techniques applicable to T. cruzi, as tools for assessing drug efficacy and disease pathology. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, has served on expert review panels for the Wellcome Trust, and is an external adviser for TriTrypDB, the trypanosomatid community genome database.
