Jay Kalin

Jay Kalin is a Senior Scientist at Johnson & Johnson, focusing on high-throughput assay development and mechanistic pharmacology. They earned a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BS in Chemistry, graduating summa cum laude from Salisbury University. Jay has held positions such as Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where they specialized in mechanism-based inhibitor design and translational chemotherapy studies. Previously, they also worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Salisbury University and a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago, gaining expertise in various aspects of drug discovery.