Kerry is a medicinal chemist with deep expertise in synthetic organic chemistry and small-molecule drug discovery from hit identification through lead optimization. Prior to joining Inductive Bio, she contributed to multiple discovery programs at Johnson & Johnson as a medicinal chemist and series lead and served as a key liaison for integrating machine-learning-driven molecular design into discovery efforts.

Kerry earned her PhD in organic chemistry in Prof. Justin Du Bois’s lab at Stanford and conducted research for several years in Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Grubbs’s lab at Caltech. Her work has appeared in Nature, Nature Chemistry, and Nature Protocols and has resulted in over 20 patents. She is also a contributing writer at DrugHunter, translating complex drug discovery science into accessible insights for the R&D community.