Dr Joanne Reed

Dr. Joanne Reed is a Group Leader at the Garvan Institute, Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW and NSW Health Fellow. She completed her PhD at Flinders University, Adelaide in 2009, studying autoimmune disease. Joanne was then awarded an NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship for postdoctoral training at New York University, where she worked on lupus. In 2013 she returned to Australia to continue her research on autoimmune disease at Australian National University before relocating to the Garvan Institute in 2015. Joanne currently leads a translational research program focused on understanding autoantibody-mediated autoimmune disease. Her team recently developed single cell genomic approaches to study patient cells responsible for severe autoimmune pathology, with the goal of identifying targeted therapies.