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Hive Curation Team Profile:
Regis Kelly
Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF
2014
Dr. Regis B. Kelly is the Director of one of four California Institutes for Science and Innovation, created by the California Legislature to strengthen the academic foundation of its technology-based industries. QB3 is the only one of the four devoted exclusively to biology and to the life science industries. It is an innovation center made up of over 200 quantitative biologists at three northern California campuses (UCB, UCSC & UCSF) converting its discoveries into practical benefits for society.

From 2000 to 2004, Dr. Kelly served as Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California in San Francisco, where his major responsibility was the new Mission Bay campus. This campus is the center of academic planning for a 300 acre public/private biomedical research park in San Francisco.

From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Kelly served as Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF; from 1988 to 1995, he was the Director of UCSF’s Cell Biology Graduate Program; and from 1992 to 2000, he was the Director of the Hormone Research Institute at UCSF. He has published extensively in the areas of cell and neurobiology and remains a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Dr. Kelly received his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1961 and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 1967. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford, Dr. Kelly was an instructor in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Bay Area Scientific Innovation Consortium (BASIC), is on the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Biotechnology Advisory Panel, and is on the Boards of the Scleroderma Foundation, and the San Francisco Mayor’s Biotechnology Advisory Group, the ChinaSF Program, among others. He is also a General Partner of Mission Bay Capital venture fund.

In 2011, Dr. Kelly was inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall. He has also received other awards for his support of entrepreneurship. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.