Steve A. Kay

Steve Kay
FRS
BornOctober 4
Jersey
NationalityBritish, American since 2003
EducationUniversity of Bristol, UK
Known forchronobiology, genomics
AwardsThomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, ASPB Award for the Martin Gibbs Medal, AAAS Fellow, Member of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2002, Science Breakthroughs of the Year 1998, Science Breakthroughs of the Year 1997

Steve A. Kay FRS is a British-born chronobiologist who mainly works in the United States. Dr. Kay has pioneered methods to monitor daily gene expression in real time and characterized circadian gene expression in plants, flies and mammals. In 2014, Steve Kay celebrated 25 years of successful chronobiology research at the Kaylab 25 Symposium, joined by over one hundred researchers with whom he had collaborated with or mentored.[1] Dr. Kay, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., briefly served as president of The Scripps Research Institute.[2] and is currently a professor at the University of Southern California. He also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2011.

  1. ^ Tripathi, Pratheek (2014). "Chronobiology: Past, Present and Future". ASPB Plant Science Blog.
  2. ^ "Scripps Research Institute Names Peter Schultz as CEO, Steve Kay as President".