Shana O. Kelley. Shana O. Kelley is a scientist and Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. She is affiliated with Northwestern's International Institute for Nanotechnology and was previously part of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Medicine. Kelley's research includes the development of new technologies for clinical diagnostics and drug delivery. In 2023, she was chosen as president of Chicago's new Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.

Education and training
Kelley received her BS from Seton Hall University in 1994. She pursued graduate studies in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she worked with Jacqueline Barton. She graduated with her PhD in 1999 with a dissertation entitled Electron Transfer through the DNA Double Helix: Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Studies.

From 1999 to 2000, Kelley was a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, where she worked with Paul Schimmel.

Career 
Kelley began her independent research career as an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department at Boston College in 2000. In 2006, she was promoted directly to the rank of Full Professor and in 2007, she joined the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. In August 2021, she joined Northwestern University's Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering as a named professor. It was announced in March 2023 that she would head the new Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in Chicago, which will be a collaboration between Northwestern, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kelley founded a university spin-off company named GeneOhm Sciences with her graduate advisor Jacqueline Barton. GeneOhm Sciences was based on a discovery that Kelley made during her graduate studies, where she developed a method to detect mutations in DNA by modifying the DNA strands and measuring their differing conductivity. GeneOhm Sciences used Kelley's discovery to create a diagnostic test for antibiotic-resistant MRSA bacteria. GeneOhm was acquired by Becton Dickinson in early 2006. Kelley also founded the molecular diagnostics company Xagenic Inc. In April 2023, she started a new company, CTRL Therapeutics, which aims to improve existing cell therapy in cancer treatment by focusing on the CTRL gene.

Awards 

 2000  Dreyfus New Faculty Award
 2000  Research Innovation Award* 2008  Named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40
 2004  MIT Technology Review TR100 Top Innovator
 2004  Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
 2004  NSF CAREER Award
 2005  Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
 2010  NSERC E.W.R Steacie Fellowship
 2011  University of Toronto Inventor of the Year
 2011  Steacie Prize
 2013  University of Toronto Distinguished Professor Award
 2016  SLAS Innovation Award
 2016  NSERC Brockhouse Award
 2016  Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
 2016  Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
 2017  ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award
 2017  Somorjai Visiting Miller Professorship (UC Berkeley)
 2018  Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Rowland Institute, Harvard University
 2020  AFPC / Pfizer Research Career Award
 2021 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
 2021  Order of Ontario
 2022  Guggenheim Fellowship
 2022  Doolittle Award, American Chemical Society
 2023  Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Personal life 
Kelley is married to fellow University of Toronto Professor Ted Sargent. They met at a nanotechnology conference at UC Irvine, and have two children together.

References

External links 
Translational Biomedical Engineering Talk on September 9, 2020

Academic staff of the University of Toronto
California Institute of Technology alumni
Seton Hall University alumni
Boston College faculty
21st-century American chemists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Northwestern University faculty
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Sloan Research Fellows
Members of the Order of Ontario