Kelly is an Assistant Professor in the Cancer Metabolism and Microenvironment Program at the NCI-designated Cancer Center at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Originally from the Netherlands, Kelly received her B.S. and M.S. from Utrecht University, and performed her Ph.D. studies at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam working with Prof. Karin de Visser studying the role of the immune system in the metastatic spread of breast cancer. For her postdoctoral training, Kelly joined the lab of Prof. Max Krummel at the University of California San Francisco to study how tumor-associated myeloid cells affect anti-tumor T cell responses. Kelly is currently setting up her independent research team at SBP.