Lewis Kay

Professor Lewis Kay’s research cuts across the interface of physical chemistry and medical sciences. His work focuses on transforming the techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy as applied to the study of large proteins and their complexes, in particular those that are involved in health and disease.

Education and experience

• 1983: B.Sc. in Biochemistry (first class honours), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• 1988: PhD in Molecular Biophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Supervisor: Dr. J.H. Prestegard; Thesis: “NMR Methods for Studying Motional and Structural Properties of Molecules in Solution”
• 1988–1991: Alberta Heritage and Medical Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Adrian Bax, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
• 1992–1995: Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics (previously Medical Genetics), Biochemistry and Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• 1995–Present: Professor of Molecular Genetics (previously Medical Genetics), Biochemistry and Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada