Kelly Nguyen is a Group Leader at the MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK.  Kelly obtained her bachelor's degree with honors in Chemistry from the Australian National University. She completed her PhD focusing on structural studies of large spliceosomal complexes at the MRC-LMB. She was a Miller Research Fellow at UC Berkeley.

She was awarded University Medal from ANU, RNA Society Scaringe Award and Biochemical Society Early Career Award.