Kelly Chavez Rose joined the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in January 2019 and oversees the Interfaces in Science and Regulatory Science programs, which invest a combined $10 million a year in biomedical research. Prior to BWF, Dr. Rose was Executive Director for the Research Triangle Material Research Science and Engineering Center (RT-MRSEC), and coordinated research, education, and outreach activities between four partner universities in the Research Triangle (Duke, UNC-CH, NC State and NC Central). Before moving to North Carolina, Dr. Rose was the program coordinator for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program for Berkeley City College. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), which was funded through a National Institute of Health (NIH) Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA). At UCSF, Kelly worked on a joint project in the Departments of Bioengineering and Craniofacial Biology, and her work focused on bioengineering a stem cell niche for tooth regeneration with Drs. Tejal Desai and Ophir Klein. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of New Mexico in the laboratory of Dr. Laurie Hudson in the College of Pharmacy. Her PhD project was focused on the dynamics of cell-cell junctions during epidermal wound healing. Kelly is committed to diversity, equity. and inclusion (DEI) efforts not only at BWF, but also by serving on several DEI committees for national societies such as the Health Research Alliance and National Organization of Research Development Professionals.