Stephen Kelly, PhD
Area of Specialty: Basic Scientific Research in Cerebral Ischemia, Stem Cells and Biomaterials.
Professional Appointments: Research Scientist II, JFK Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey.
Academic Appointments: Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education, South Orange, New Jersey.
Graduate Education: 2000: PhD in Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom; 1996; BSc (Hons) University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Professional Memberships: Society for Neuroscience; International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism.
Honors and Awards: University of Glasgow, Faculty of Medicine PhD Scholarship; Stanford University, Cerebrovascular Research Fellowship; Blue Ribbon Award, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, San Diego; ISCBFM Young Investigator Travel Bursary.
Research Interest: The Brain Injury and Repair Laboratory has three main themes: exploring the role of miRNAs in cerebral ischemia; using stem cells to model and develop therapies for cerebral ischemia; developing biomaterials approaches to enhance stem cell therapies and in vitro disease modeling.
Lab member: Shu Wang, PhD.
Reviewed manuscripts for: American Journal of Medicine, Biomaterials, British Journal of Pharmacology, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Journal of Neurosurgery, Molecular Therapy, Neurosurgery.
Reviewed Funding Applications for: BBSRC, Wellcome Trust.
Representative Publications:
Regan EM, Uney JB, Dick AD, McGeehan JP, Claeyssens F, Kelly S. (2010). Differential patterning of neurons, glia and neural progenitor cells on phosphorus-doped and UV irradiated diamond-like carbon. Biomaterials 31, 207-15.
Webster CM*, Kelly S*, Koike MA, Chock VY, Giffard RG, Yenari MA. (2009). Inflammation and NFκB activation is decreased by hypothermia following global cerebral ischemia. Neurobiology of Disease 33, 301-312.
Kelly S, Caldwell M, Keasey MP, Cooke JA, Uney JB. (2009). Identifying Neural Progenitor Cells in the Adult Brain. In Methods in Molecular Medicine, Scolding N.J., and Gordon, D. ed. pp. 217-230.
Kelly S, Regan EM, Uney JB, Dick AD, McGeehan JP, Bristol Biochip Group, Mayer EJ, Claeyssens F. (2008). Patterned growth of neuronal cells on modified diamond-like carbon substrates. Biomaterials 29, 2573-2580.
Bliss M*, Kelly S*, Shah AK, Foo WC, Kohli P, Stokes C, Sun GH, Ma M, Masel J, Kleppner SR, Schallert T, Palmer T, Steinberg GK. (2006). Transplantation of hNT neurons into the ischemic cortex: Cell survival and effect on sensorimotor behavior. Journal of Neuroscience Research 83, 1004-1014.
Kelly S, Bliss TM, Shah AK, Sun GH, Ma M, Foo WC, Masel J, Yenari MA, Weissman IL, Uchida N, Palmer T, Steinberg GK. (2004). Transplanted human fetal neural stem cells survive, migrate, and differentiate in ischemic rat cerebral cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101, 11839-11844.
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