Journal of Biomolecular Research & Therapeutics

Zvi Kelman

Zvi Kelman
Director, Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
University of Maryland, USA

Biography

Zvi Kelman is the Director of the Biomolecular Labeling Laboratory (BL2), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and a professor in the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), University of Maryland.  He also affiliated with the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, the Program in Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences (MEES) Faculty, University of Maryland.
Dr. Kelman earned a B.Sc. in Agriculture from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a M.Sc. in Cell Biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science. After receiving a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, he was a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratories of Thomas Kelly (Johns Hopkins University) and Jerard Hurwitz (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center). Upon completion of his postgraduate training, he became a Life Technologies Professor at the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB), University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI). Dr. Kelman moved to IBBR in 2010 and to NIST in 2011.
Professor Kelman has organized a number of domestic and international conferences and is the recipient of multiple research awards. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Research and Reports in Biology and a member of the editorial boards of more than 10 other journals.

Research Interest

Major research interests are the elucidation of the mechanism of DNA replication and the genetic basis of vitamin B12 deficiency in humans.