Dr. Reid Powell

Biography

Dr. Reid Powell has a diverse research background with expertise in cell molecular biology, computer science, and lab automation. He graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from Texas Tech University in 2012, with a minor in Biology. He obtained his PhD in Medical Science from Texas A&M University in 2018 and continued his academic career as a post-doctoral research fellow and later as a Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. Dr. Powell is involved in the Gulf Coast Consortia’s Combinatorial Drug Discovery Program and the High Throughput Flow Cytometry Programs at the Texas A&M Institute of Bioscience and Technology. He has developed a wide array of image-based, flow-based, and biochemical high-throughput screening platforms, applying these methods to repurpose drugs for various disease contexts including cancer, pathogenic infections, and neurologic disorders. His research interests also encompass the development and implementation of methods used to contextualize high-dimensional data with integrative machine learning approaches that combine genomics, transcriptomics, and chemical and image-derived drug susceptibility data sources. He supports efforts of building and maintaining a distributed computing cluster housed in multiple CPRIT funded core facilities.

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