Lewis E. Kay

Lewis Edward Kay, (born September 26, 1961) is a Canadian academic and biochemist known for his research in biochemistry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for the studies of the structure and behaviour of proteins. He is a professor of molecular genetics, biochemistry and chemistry at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist in Molecular Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children.

Biography
Kay received a B.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Alberta in 1983, a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from Yale University in 1988, and did post-doctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health. In 2020, he was honoured as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Awards and honours

 * 1996 — Merck Frosst Award
 * 1998 — Canada's "Top 40 under 40"
 * 1999 — Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences
 * 2002 — Founders Medal International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems
 * 2002 — Flavelle Medal, Royal Society of Canada
 * 2004 — Günther Laukien Prize
 * 2006 — Elected to the Royal Society of Canada
 * 2008 — Premier's Discovery Award
 * 2010 — Elected to the Royal Society
 * 2012 — Khorana Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry
 * 2017 — Inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada
 * 2017 — Gairdner Foundation International Award
 * 2018 — Herzberg Medal of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
 * 2019 — Doctor of Science honoris causa from The University of British Columbia
 * 2019 — Nakanishi Prize

Personal life
Kay is married to biophysicist Julie Forman-Kay, who studies intrinsically disordered proteins.