Overview
SGS Tea and Conversations is a professional development series designed to give graduate students an opportunity to meet with and informally engage with leading U of T scholars and alumni with inspiring and extraordinary career paths across the disciplines. Invited speakers will share their experiences and reflect upon the Tea and Conversations prompt: “unexpected insights and superpowers gained in graduate school.”
Events
Professor Lewis E. Kay
Lewis Kay is Professor of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Yale University in 1988, pursuant to which he spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow in Chemical Physics at the NIH. In 2012 he was named University Professor by the University of Toronto, the highest academic distinction bestowed by the institution.
Professor Kay’s research cuts across the interface of physical chemistry and medical sciences. His work focuses on transforming the techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy as applied to the study of large proteins and their complexes, in particular, those that are involved in health and disease.
Professor Kay has published over 500 research papers and work has earned over 80,000 citations. The tools developed in his laboratory are disseminated freely and used extensively worldwide.
Professor Kay is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada, and an International member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. He was named a Canada Gairdner International Award laureate and was awarded Canada’s most prestigious science prize, the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.
This workshop will be offered in-person (Grad Student Lounge, 63 St. George Street, School of Graduate Studies) on Tuesday, November 11, 2025 from 3:00–4:30 PM ET.