Deborah F. Kelly

[1] Some of her papers have been retracted, and Pennsylvania State University barred her from conducting research for the institution due to what its investigation determined were data integrity problems in her work.

After seven years as a research fellow at Harvard, Kelly joined the Virginia Tech School of Medicine as an assistant professor.

[citation needed] Kelly combines structural and functional characterization tools to understand cellular communication.

[4] These cancerous cells can evade conventional forms of treatment and are understood to result in the formation of malignant tumors.

Kelly has also reported methods which propose to determine protein structures in the liquid phase (Liquid-EM),[15][16][17] as opposed to the standard frozen state of Cryogenic electron microscopy.