Douglas Kell was previously at the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, based in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology where he founded and led the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology.
15 Facts About Douglas Kell
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Douglas Kell served as chief executive officer of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council from 2008 to 2013.
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Douglas Kell graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry in 1975 with a distinction in chemical pharmacology, where he was an undergraduate student of St John's College, Oxford.
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Douglas Kell stayed in Oxford for his Doctor of Philosophy degree, completed in 1978 with a thesis on the bioenergetics of the microbe Paracoccus denitrificans, supervised by Stuart Ferguson and Philip John.
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Douglas Kell led the consensus program to model the yeast metabolic network.
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Douglas Kell has been involved in the development of multivariate scientific instrumentation and the attendant machine learning software.
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Douglas Kell's publications are mostly open access and are very widely cited, with an H-index at Google Scholar in excess of 130.
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Douglas Kell has been involved in research to create a robot scientist in collaboration with Ross King, Stephen Muggleton and Steve Oliver, as well as several projects in systems biology.
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Douglas Kell is involved in the study of membrane transporters, and their necessary involvement in the transmembrane uptake of pharmaceutical drugs.
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Douglas Kell tends to choose scientific problems in which the prevailing orthodoxy is clearly incorrect.
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Douglas Kell is a strong believer in the importance of systematic reviews in Science, especially where they synthesise disparate evidence into a coherent picture.
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Douglas Kell is an Associated Scientific Director of the Centre for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark, where he runs the Flux Optimisation and Bioanalytics Group.
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Douglas Kell's research has been funded by the European Union, the BBSRC, the Medical Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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Douglas Kell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2014 New Year Honours, for services to science and research.
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Douglas Kell is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.