Dr Kelly has served as Senior Director, Drug Development at Biota Pharmaceuticals Inc. Prior to joining Biota, he was Vice President, Regulatory and Clinical at Mesoblast Ltd. Dr Kelly has also held a variety of regulatory and project management positions with Kendle International, Amgen and AstraZeneca. He is a registered pharmacist and a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, a graduate and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), a member of the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT) and the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). He also currently serves on the ISCT Asia-Pacific Industry Committee, the ISSCR Best Practices Regulatory Working Group and the Industry Interface Committee of the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) Australia.