A/Prof Joanne Reed leads the Autoimmunity and Amyloidosis Lab at the Westmead Institute and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at UNSW and University of Sydney. She completed her PhD in Immunology in 2009 at Flinders University in Adelaide. She then received a NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship for postdoctoral positions at New York University and Australian National University, followed by a New South Wales Health Fellowship at the Garvan Institute. Joanne is currently the Peter Tosi research fellow and leading an NHMRC-funded translational research program focused on understanding the origins and pathogenesis of autoantibody-mediated autoimmune disease.