Kelvin J. A. Davies#
| Membership Number: | 4119 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://gero.usc.edu/faculty/davies |
| ORCID: | 0000-001-7790-3003 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Senior Scientist, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE)
- 1996 - presentJames E. Birren Endowed Professor of BioGerontology, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
- 1996 - present Professor of Molecular & Computational Biology, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, University of Southern California
- 1996 - 2012 Dean of Research, Associate Dean, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
- 2012 - present Dean of Faculty & Dean of Research, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
- 1989 - 1996 Chairman & John Muntz University Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Albany Medical College
- 1989 - 1996 Distinguished Professor of Molecular Medicine, , Dept. of Medicine, Albany Medical College
- 1984 - 1989 Assistant/Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Physiology & Toxicology, School of Medicine, USC
- 1983 - 1984 Assistant Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
- 1982 - 1983 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
Fields of Scholarship
- Regulation of gene expression
- Signal transduction
- Physiology and medicine
- Shock/stress adaptation
- Proteolysis
- Free radicals and oxidative stress
- Ageing
- Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology
- Post-translational modification of proteins
- Mitochondrial bioenergetics
Honours and Awards
- 1982 Harwood S. Belding Award, American Physiological Society
- 1989 Fellow of The Oxygen Society (FOS), now the Society for Free Radical Biology & Medicine (FSFRBM)
- 1993 Doctor of Medicine degree (honoris causae), Russian Medical University, Moscow
- 1995 Doctor of Medicine degree (honoris causae), and 50th Anniversary Medal, University of Gdansk, Poland
- 1996 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (F.A.A.A.S.),
- 1998 Doctor of the University degree (honoris causae) University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2003 Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (F.G.S.A.)
- 1992 - 1995 President, Society for Free Radical Biology & Medicine, Secretary General (1988-1990)
- 2003 - 2005 President, The International Society for Free Radical Research
- 2006 Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award – Society for Free Radical Biology & Medicine
- 2007 Presidential Award and Lecturer – American College of Sports Medicine
- 2008 Doctor of Medicine (honoris causae) Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2009/2011 Distinguished Mentoring Award of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2009 and 2011
- 2012 Phi Kappa Phi Research Recognition Award
- 2012 European Society for Free Radical Research, 2012 Prize and Annual Lecturer
- 2012 Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite de France (Knight, National Order of Merit of France)
- 2014 Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK
- 2014 Doctor of Medicine degree (hc) Shenzhen Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University, China, 2014
- 2015 Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
- 2015 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2015 Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
