Mark Kay

Founder, SAB and BOD

Mark A. Kay MD, PhD is the Dennis Farrey Family Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics at Stanford University and is Head of the Division of Human Gene Therapy in Pediatrics. Dr. Kay has made seminal contributions in the fields of Gene and Genome engineering based therapeutics, RNAi and non-coding RNA biology. His work spans basic research through clinical trials that includes the first systemic delivery of AAV into humans. Dr. Kay was a founding board member of the American Society for Cell and Gene Therapy and served as the President of the Society in 2006. He received the Outstanding Investigator Award in 2013. Dr. Kay served on the Board of Directors of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society for 10 years. He has published >300 peer reviewed papers, and has served and continues to serves as an editor of several journals. He is an inventor on many patents including those related to key gene therapy vectors and the use of RNAi in whole mammals. He has co-founded 4 companies and serves on many biotech/pharmaceutical advisory boards. In 2020, he was elected to the National Academy of Inventors.

Talks About
#pediatrics #genetics

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica