Joanne Reed

Associate Professor Joanne Reed serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Westmead Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, at the University of Sydney. She earned a Bachelor of Biotechnology (Honours) from Flinders University in 2004 and a PhD from the same institution in 2009, with her doctoral thesis examining autoantibodies in Sjögren’s syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus. Reed completed postdoctoral training at New York University School of Medicine from 2010 to 2013 under an NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship, focusing on genetic and immune drivers of neonatal lupus. She then held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University in 2013-2014, followed by positions at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research from 2015 to 2021, advancing from postdoctoral fellow to group leader and serving as Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales during that period.

Currently, as Principal Research Fellow and Head of the Autoimmunity & Amyloidosis Laboratory at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research since 2021, as well as Centre Director of the Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research, Reed specializes in using genomics to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren’s syndrome, and neonatal lupus, alongside amyloid diseases such as light chain and transthyretin amyloidosis. Her contributions have earned prestigious awards, including the 2023 NHMRC Investigator Grant (Leadership L1), 2021 Peter Tosi Fellowship in Amyloidosis Research, 2019 Philip Alpers Prize from the Australian Rheumatology Association, 2018 Rebecca L Cooper and Philip Sambrook Memorial Awards, and 2017 Young Investigator Award from the International Congress on Lupus. She has secured major funding from NHMRC and MRFF for projects on genomics in autoimmune disease and anti-CD20 treatments. Reed has published over 40 papers in leading journals such as Cell, PNAS, and Nature Communications, with key works including 'Lymphoma Driver Mutations in the Pathogenic Evolution of an Iconic Human Autoantibody' (Cell, 2020), 'Isolated anti-Ro52 identifies a severe subset of Sjögren’s syndrome patients,' and 'Convergent mutation trajectories convert functional self-tolerance in regulatory B cells to autoimmunity.' She holds roles as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Immunology, Council Member for the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology and International Union of Immunological Societies, and lectures in immunology at the University of Sydney.

Professional Email: joanne.reed@sydney.edu.au