Dr. Corey received his B.A. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1990 from UC Berkeley under the guidance of Dr. Peter Schultz. After postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Charles Craik at UC San Francisco, Dr. Corey started his independent career at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he is now the Rusty Kelley Professor of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Corey’s research focuses on the discovery of nucleic acids as leads for therapeutic development and on novel pathways for RNA-mediated control of gene expression.