Matthew Kelley

Matthew Kelley received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia where he studied development and regeneration of mechanosensory hair cells with Jeffrey Corwin. As a postdoctoral fellow he studied the determination of cell fate in the vertebrate retina with Thomas Reh at the University of Washington. In 1996 he became an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and in 2000 he moved to the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the NIH. He is now a Senior Investigator and Head of the Section on Developmental Neuroscience at NIDCD. The interests of his laboratory are focused on identifying the cellular, molecular and genetic factors that specify the development of individual cell types within the sensory epithelia of the mammalian inner ear. His laboratory is also interested in understanding how the morphological development of the coiled mammalian cochlea plays a role in cellular patterning within the cochlear sensory epithelium.