Diane Kelly is Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, Institute of Life Science,

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, Fellow of the

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and Fellow of the

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Career

After undergraduate study in London, she undertook a PhD at

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followed by postdoctoral work at the

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, researching microbial cytochromes P450. After a position at

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she returned to

as Reader and then Professor. She continues to research

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metabolism and microbial cytochromes P450 as targets for antifungal agents in medicine and agriculture, and has authored over fifty papers on these subjects. She is a member of the

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pool of experts and Natural Products (NPRONET, NIBB) board member. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the

. She has also chaired Swansea University's

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committee, the medical school's

and Equality and Diversity committees, and is a regular member/chair of UK

assessment panels.

References

Living people Welsh microbiologists Alumni of Swansea University Academics of Swansea University Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Higher Education Academy Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales {{UK-biologist-stub