Background
Skelly, Jerome Philip was born on December 15, 1932 in Vermillion, Illinois, United States. Son of Ryan Arthur and Sarah Elizabeth (Gullis) Skelly.
Skelly, Jerome Philip was born on December 15, 1932 in Vermillion, Illinois, United States. Son of Ryan Arthur and Sarah Elizabeth (Gullis) Skelly.
Bachelor of Science, Wayne State University, 1964. Master of Science, Wayne State University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Wayne State University, 1968.
Director quality control and research, Michigan Abs. Company, Detroit, 1958-1963;
teacher, research assistant, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1963-1968;
chemist, Bureau Medicine, Arlington, Virginia, 1968-1971;
supervisor division clinical research, Bureau Drugs, Rockville, Maryland., 1972-1974;
chairman drug bioavail. scholar, University of California, San Francisco, 1974-1975;
chief biopharmaceutics branch, Division Biopharmaceutics, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, 1975-1979;
chief pharmacokinetics branch Division Biopharmaceutics, Division Biopharmaceutics, Food and Drug Administration, 1977-1979;
director field research branch, Food and Drug Administration, 1979;
deputy director division biopharmaceutics, Bureau Drugs, Rockville, 1979-1983;
director division biopharmaceutics, Office Drug Studies, Rockville, 1983-1989. Deputy director Office Research Resources, Center for Drug Evaluation & Research, Rockville, since 1988, acting director, since 1988.
Conductor workshops in field.
Active So Others May Eat, Washington, since 1982. Fellow American College Clinical Pharmacology, American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, American Association Pharmaceutical Scientists (past chairman pharmacokinetics section, board directors). Member Mount Vernon Yacht Club, Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, Phi Lambda Upsilon.
Married Margaret Mary Hurley, May 2, 1957. Children: Shawn Elizabeth, Jerome Philip, Timothy Hurley.