Research Interests

Neurodegenerative diseases, neuroimmune interactions, hiPSC-derived in vitro disease modeling, cell engineering, and regenerative medicine.

Aquene Reid 

Publications

1. Vitanza NA, Wilson AL, Huang W, Seidel K, Brown C, Gustafson JA, Yokoyama JK, Johnson AJ, Baxter BA, Koning RW, Reid AN, Meechan M, Biery MC, Myers C, Rawlings-Rhea SD, Albert CM, Browd SR, Hauptman JS, Lee A, Ojemann JG, Berens ME, Dun MD, Foster JB, Crotty EE, Leary SES, Cole BL, Perez FA, Wright JN, Orentas RJ, Chour T, Newell EW, Whiteaker JR, Zhao L, Paulovich AG, Pinto N, Gust J, Gardner RA, Jensen MC, Park JR. Intraventricular B7-H3 CAR T Cells for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma: Preliminary First-in-Human Bioactivity and Safety. Cancer Discov. 2023 Jan 9;13(1):114-131. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-22-0750. PMID: 36259971; PMCID: PMC9827115.

2. Johnson AJ, Wei J, Rosser JM, Künkele A, Chang CA, Reid AN, Jensen MC. Rationally Designed Transgene-Encoded Cell-Surface Polypeptide Tag for Multiplexed Programming of CAR T-cell Synthetic Outputs. Cancer Immunol Res. 2021 Sep;9(9):1047-1060. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-20-0470. Epub 2021 Jul 9. PMID: 34244298; PMCID: PMC8415133.

Other activities

Neuroscience Undergraduate Reading Program (NURP) mentor – Fall 2023

First-Year Rotations (2022-2023)

Autumn: Benjamin Freedman, PhD

Winter: Jessica Young, PhD 

Spring: Suman Jayadev, MD