Jeffery Kelly

Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute

Dr. Jeffery Kelly is the Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. He is the 2022 recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry.

A central focus of his research is to understand the principles of protein folding and to comprehend the basis for misfolding and aggregation diseases to develop novel therapeutic strategies using chemistry, biophysical and biological approaches.

He examines the bioorganic and biophysical chemistry of aberrant conformational changes in proteins associated with misfolding diseases, seeking to develop new approaches for preventing these diseases with purposefully designed small molecules.

Dr. Kelly received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his B.S. in Chemistry at SUNY Fredonia. He held a postdoctoral post at Rockefeller University.