Translational Science Interagency Fellow

Division of Preclinical Innovation
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
National Institutes of Health

Biography

Kelly Showel, Pharm.D.

Kelly graduated with her B.S. in biology from the University of Minnesota. During her time there she was a researcher in Dr. Chris Faulk’s lab, an epigenetics and functional genomics lab. Upon graduation she worked as a pharmacy technician for a year before attending pharmacy school at UMN. While completing her Doctorate of Pharmacy, she also continued her research career by working with Dr. David Ferguson, looking at cannabinoid profiles and extraction technique. After the completion of her Pharm.D., Kelly continued on to a T32 Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at Mayo Clinic, where she worked in Dr. Christopher Evan’s lab, a musculoskeletal gene therapy lab.

Now as a fellow in TSIF, she is working with Dr. Mark Henderson and Dr. Daniela Verthelyi on the project, “Developing Ipsc-Derived Macrophage Reporter Assays to Assess Immune Cell Responses to Nucleic Therapeutics.”