Rate My Professor Andrew Reid

Dr. Andrew Reid is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Respiratory Medicine within the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia, affiliated with the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing. He earned a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in 2009 from the University of Newcastle, achieving a perfect grade point average of 7 and receiving both the Faculty and University medals. Dr. Reid was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship along with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor's award to pursue his PhD at the same institution from 2010 to 2015 in Biological Sciences. His doctoral research examined the role of dynamin in mouse spermatozoa and the epididymal epithelium, yielding three high-ranking publications and a nomination for the PhD medal. Beginning in 2014, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher under Professor Darryl Knight at the Hunter Medical Research Institute and the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, honing skills in immunofluorescent, video, phase contrast, and electron microscopy, as well as pharmacological inhibition techniques, which contributed to numerous highly cited publications. Since 2017, under the mentorship of Conjoint Professor Christopher Grainge, his work has centered on the impact of mechanical forces on dysregulated asthmatic airway epithelium.

Dr. Reid's research focuses on respiratory diseases, with 50% emphasis on respiratory diseases and 50% on cell physiology, including air-liquid interface cultures, airway epithelium, asthma, COPD, mucus production, and mucociliary clearance. He has developed innovative in vitro models for airway diseases, attracting collaborations with Cornell University, Harvard University, Imperial College London, and others. His efforts secured over $1.4 million in funding, including from the NHMRC Ideas Grant in 2021 for bronchiectasis research, HMRI Cameron Family Trust, Lung Foundation Australia PCD Fellowship, and University of Newcastle equipment grants. With 27 peer-reviewed articles amassing 582 citations and an h-index of 18, key contributions include the book chapter 'Ground zero—the airway epithelium' (2019), studies on NOTCH3 inhibition reducing MUC5AC in airway cells (2018), and investigations into IL-25 blockade enhancing antiviral immunity (2022). Dr. Reid has supervised five PhD students to completion, serves on the editorial board of Frontiers in Allergy, and is a member of the Australian Bronchiectasis Consortium, American Thoracic Society, Lung Foundation Australia, and Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand.