Frank Kelly (physiologist)

Kelly obtained his first degree from Queen's University Belfast, before taking a Ph.D. in physiology there as well. He then joined Pennsylvania State University, as a postdoctoral fellow. After working in the United States, he returned to the UK as a lecturer at Southampton University. During the early part of his career, his research focused on free-radical biology and human disease, and lung damage in premature babies and cystic fibrosis patients.{{cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Professor Frank Kelly |url=https://www.plusalliance.org/press-room/fellow-profile-professor-frank-kelly |website=Plus Alliance |publisher=Arizona State University, King’s College London, and UNSW Sydney |access-date=16 April 2022}}

In 1992, Kelly moved to London and developed a new research interest in the effect of air pollution on lungs and respiratory health. He became a Senior Lecturer at St Thomas’ Hospital, where his research interests included the health effects of vitamin E,{{cite journal |display-authors=5|last1=Brigelius-Flohé |first1=Regina |last2=Kelly |first2=Frank J |last3=Salonen |first3=Jukka |last4=Neuzil |first4=Jiri |last5=Zingg |first5=Jean-Marc |last6=Azzi |first6=Angelo |title=The European perspective on vitamin E: current knowledge and future research |journal=Am J Clin Nutr |date=2002 |volume=76 |issue=4 |pages=703–16 |doi=10.1093/ajcn/76.4.703 |pmid=12324281 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/76/4/703/4677430 |access-date=18 April 2022|doi-access=free }} before moving to King's College, London, where he was Professor of Environmental Health and Director of the Environmental Research Group. Kelly and his group transferred to Imperial College in 2020.{{cite web |last1=Scheuber |first1=Andrew |title=New global centre of air pollution research as Frank Kelly group joins Imperial |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196113/new-global-centre-pollution-research-frank/ |website=Imperial College London |date=12 March 2020 |access-date=16 April 2022}} His current work includes WellHome, a large study of how indoor air pollutants affect childhood asthma in urban environments.{{cite web |title=Exploring how air pollution in indoor spaces affects human health |url=https://www.ukri.org/news/exploring-how-air-pollution-in-indoor-spaces-affects-human-health/ |website=UK Research and Innovation |access-date=21 December 2023 |date=23 July 2021}}{{cite web |title=WellHome - West London Healthy Home and Environment Study |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/school-public-health/environmental-research-group/the-wellhome-study/ |website=Imperial College London |access-date=21 December 2023}}

Kelly works with the World Health Organization on air pollution issues and is a member of the Health Effects Institute (HEI) Review Committee. He has also served as Chairman of the UK Department of Health Expert Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP), President of the European Society for Free Radical Research, and Chairman of the British Association for Lung Research.

Kelly has published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers.{{cite web |title=Professor Frank Kelly |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/frank.kelly |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=22 August 2021}}

Kelly won the 2019 Royal Society of Chemistry Toxicology Award for "outstanding research into free radical and antioxidant toxicological mechanisms relevant to pulmonary toxicity".{{cite web |title=Professor Frank Kelly, Imperial College London, Receives 2019 Toxicology Award |url=https://eeh.hpru.nihr.ac.uk/professor-frank-kelly-imperial-college-london-receives-2019-toxicology-award/ |publisher=NIHR Health Protection Research Unit |access-date=17 May 2022 |date=12 November 2021}} Also that year, he shared the Elsevier Haagen-Smit Prize with Julia Fussell for a paper on the toxicity of particulate air pollution.{{cite web |title=Professor Frank Kelly and Dr Julia Fussell win Haagen-Smit prize |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/frank-kelly-julia-fussell-haagen-smit-prize |publisher=King's College London |access-date=17 May 2022 |date=21 February 2020}} He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2018{{cite web |title=Professor Frank Kelly FMedSci |url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/fellow/Frank%20James-Kelly-0033z00002qIKP9AAO |website=The Academy of Medical Sciences |access-date=10 September 2022}} and became an honorary fellow of the Institute of Air Quality Management in 2021.{{cite web |title=Prof Frank Kelly elected as IAQM Honorary Fellow |url=https://iaqm.co.uk/prof-frank-kelly-elected-as-iaqm-honorary-fellow/ |publisher=Institute of Air Quality Management |access-date=17 May 2022 |date=24 December 2021}} Kelly was made a CBE in January 2025 "for services to air pollution research and to human health".{{cite news |last1=Booth |first1=Rich |title=The New Year Honours list 2025 in full: Every person celebrated this year |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/new-year-honours-list-2025-in-full-b2671713.html |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=The Independent |date=30 December 2024}}

Kelly is a frequent media commentator on air quality issues, such as pollution in London,{{cite news |last1=Gruner |first1=Peter |title=London's pollution 'worst in Europe' |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/london-s-pollution-worst-in-europe-6312721.html |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=Evening Standard |date=12 April 2012}}{{cite news |last1=Coghlan |first1=Andy |title=Air pollution blights London life |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029432-000-air-pollution-blights-london-life/ |work=New Scientist |date=13 November 2012|access-date=22 August 2021}} pollution caused by road transport,{{cite news |last1=Wilford |first1=Greg |title=Total car ban is the only way to beat air pollution in cities, expert warns |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/air-pollution-electric-car-ban-petrol-diesel-environment-professor-frank-kelly-london-emissions-early-deaths-committee-on-the-medical-effects-of-air-pollutants-world-health-organisation-theresa-may-michael-a7878306.html |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The Independent |date=5 August 2017}} whether a shift to electric cars can tackle air quality,{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Frank |title=London should lead in showing electric cars will not tackle air pollution |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/04/london-should-lead-in-showing-electric-cars-will-not-tackle-air-pollution |access-date=21 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=4 August 2017}} the use of taxes to improve air quality,{{cite news |last1=Webster |first1=Ben |title=Call to tax 'deadly' diesel |work=The Times |date=30 April 2014 |page=14}} indoor air pollution,{{cite news |last1=Lees |first1=Martina |title=Clear the Air: Your home could be more toxic than a traffic-choked main road |work=The Sunday Times |date=1 December 2019 |page=20}} air quality in other parts of the world,{{cite news |last1=Vidal |first1=John |title=Air pollution: a dark cloud of filth poisons the world's cities |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/16/winter-smog-hits-worlds-cities-air-pollution-soarshttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/16/winter-smog-hits-worlds-cities-air-pollution-soars |access-date=18 April 2022 |work=The Observer |date=16 January 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Bagenal |first1=Flora |title=Smog at Beijing Games five times over safety limit |work=The Sunday Times |date=6 July 2008 |page=13}} and the effectiveness of air pollution limits and guidelines.{{cite news |last1=Bawden |first1=Tom |title=Government considers tougher air pollution laws in wake of coroner's landmark asthma ruling |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/government-considers-tougher-air-pollution-laws-in-wake-of-coroners-landmark-asthma-ruling-967350 |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=iNews |date=21 April 2021}}

• {{cite book |last1=Punchard |first1=Neville |last2=Kelly |first2=Frank J |title=Free Radicals: A Practical Approach |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199635603 |oclc=34476247 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34476247 |access-date=18 April 2022}}
• {{cite book |last1=Kelly |first1=Frank J |last2=Meydani|first2=Mohsen |last3=Packer |first3=Lester |title=Vitamin E and Health |date=2004 |publisher=New York Academy of Sciences |location=New York |isbn=9781573315272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1mFFAAAAYAAJ |access-date=18 April 2022}}
• {{cite book |last1=Jarvis |first1=Debbie|last2=Adamkiewicz |first2=Gary|last3=Heroux |first3=Marie-Eve|last4=Rapp |first4=Regula|last5=Kelly |first5=Frank J. |title=WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality: Selected Pollutants: Nitrogen Dioxide |date=2010 |publisher=World Health Organization |location=Geneva |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138707/ |access-date=17 April 2022}}
• {{cite book|display-authors=5|first1=Frank|last1=Kelly|first2=H. Ross|last2= Anderson|first3=Ben|last3=Armstrong|first4=Richard|last4= Atkinson|first5=Ben|last5=Barratt|first6=Sean|last6=Beevers|first7=Dick|last7=Derwent|first8=David|last8= Green|first9=Ian|last9=Mudway|first10=Paul|last10=Wilkinson |title=The Impact of the Congestion Charging Scheme on Air Quality in London: Research Report 155 |date=2011 |publisher=Health Effects Institute |location=Boston, Mass. |url=https://www.healtheffects.org/system/files/Kelly-CCS-155_0.pdf |access-date=21 January 2023}}

• {{cite journal |display-authors=5|last1=Stephens |first1=N |last2=Parsons |first2=A |last3=Brown |first3=M |last4=Schofield |first4=P |last5=Kelly |first5=F |last6=Cheeseman |first6=K |last7=Mitchinson |first7=M |title=Randomised controlled trial of vitamin E in patients with coronary disease: Cambridge Heart Antioxidant Study (CHAOS) |journal=The Lancet |date=23 March 1996 |volume=347 |issue=9004 |pages=781–786 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(96)90866-1 |pmid=8622332 |s2cid=206009823 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140-6736(96)90866-1}}
• {{cite journal | display-authors=5|last1 = Chappell | first1 = Lucy C | last2 = Seed | first2 = Paul T | last3 = Briley | first3 = Annette L | last4 = Kelly | first4 = Frank J | last5 = Lee | first5 = Rosalind | last6 = Hunt | first6 = Beverley J | last7 = Parmar | first7 = Kiran | last8 = Bewley | first8 = Susan J | last9 = Shennan | first9 = Andrew H | last10 = Steer | first10 = Philip J | last11 = Poston | first11 = Lucilla | title = Effect of antioxidants on the occurrence of pre-eclampsia in women at increased risk: a randomised trial | journal = The Lancet | date = September 1999 | volume = 354 | issue = 9181 | pages = 810–816 | issn = 0140-6736 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)80010-5 | pmid = 10485722|s2cid = 33161705 | url =https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673699800105}}
• {{cite journal |display-authors=5| last1 = Salvi | first1 = Sundeep | last2 = Blomberg | first2 = Anders | last3 = Rudell | first3 = Bertil | last4 = Kelly | first4 = Frank | last5 = Sandström | first5 = Thomas | last6 = Holgate | first6 = Stephen T. | last7 = Frew | first7 = Anthony | title = Acute Inflammatory Responses in the Airways and Peripheral Blood After Short-Term Exposure to Diesel Exhaust in Healthy Human Volunteers | journal = American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | date = March 1999 | volume = 159 | issue = 3 | pages = 702–709 | issn = 1073-449X | eissn = 1535-4970 | doi = 10.1164/ajrccm.159.3.9709083 | pmid = 10051240 | url = https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/ajrccm.159.3.9709083}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Kelly |first1=Frank |title=Oxidative stress: its role in air pollution and adverse health effects |journal=Occupational and Environmental Medicine |date=1 August 2003 |volume=60 |issue=8 |pages=612–616 |doi=10.1136/oem.60.8.612 |pmid=12883027 |pmc=1740593 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Kelly |first1=Frank |last2=Fussell |first2=Julia |title=Air pollution and public health: emerging hazards and improved understanding of risk |journal=Environ. Geochem. Health |date=2015 |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=631–49 |doi=10.1007/s10653-015-9720-1 |pmid=26040976 |pmc=4516868 |bibcode=2015EnvGH..37..631K }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Wright |first1=Stephanie L |last2=Kelly |first2=Frank J |title=Plastic and human health: a micro issue? |journal=Environmental Science & Technology |date=20 June 2017 |volume=51 |issue=12 |pages=6634–6647 |doi=10.1021/acs.est.7b00423 |pmid=28531345 |bibcode=2017EnST...51.6634W |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b00423}}
• {{cite book |last1=Kelly |first1=Frank |editor1-last=Spiegel-Feld |editor1-first=Danielle |title=Global Sustainable Cities: City Governments and Our Environmental Future |date=2023 |publisher=NYU Press |location=New York |pages=150–161 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.8784638.11 |access-date=2 January 2025 |chapter=8: How to Fight Air Pollution: The London Way|isbn=978-1-4798-0574-7 }}

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