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  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John C. Reed is affiliated with Johnson & Johnson in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, focusing significantly on pharmacology, rheumatology, molecular biology, pathology and forensic medicine, and immunology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Urticaria and Related Conditions
  • Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Drug-Induced Adverse Reactions
  • Interferon and Immune Responses
  • Inflammasome and Immune Disorders
  • NF-κB Signaling Pathways

John C. Reed has contributed to a range of publication venues. The most frequent among these are:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
  • Trends in Immunology
  • Blood
  • Dental Materials
  • Journal of Microbiological Methods

Their recent papers include:

  • K63 ubiquitination in immune signaling, 2022, Trends in Immunology
  • Organo-selenium containing dental sealant inhibits biofilm formation by oral bacteria, 2022, Dental Materials
  • Clonal hematopoiesis landscape in frequent blood donors, 2025, Blood
  • The efficacy of organo-selenium conjugated cellulose polymer dressing to inhibit Candida albicans biofilm formation, 2022, Journal of Microbiological Methods
  • An in vitro Study of Betadine's Ability to Eliminate Live Bacteria on the Eye: Should It Be Used for Protection against Endophthalmitis?, 2022, Antibiotics

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Phat Tran
  • Jonathan Kopel
  • Ted W. Reid
  • Sibylle Haemmerle
  • Unique Jacobo

In 2011, John C. Reed was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Mitochondria and apoptosis

    Douglas R. Green;John C. Reed

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Tumor suppressor p53 is a direct transcriptional activator of the human bax gene

    T Miyashita;J C Reed

  • Regulation of Cell Death Protease Caspase-9 by Phosphorylation

    Michael H. Cardone;Natalie Roy;Henning R. Stennicke;Guy S. Salvesen

  • An inhibitor of Bcl-2 family proteins induces regression of solid tumours

    Tilman Oltersdorf;Steven W. Elmore;Alexander R. Shoemaker;Robert C. Armstrong

  • Mitochondrial control of cell death

    Guido Kroemer;John C. Reed

  • IAP family proteins—suppressors of apoptosis

    Quinn L. Deveraux;John C. Reed

  • Bcl-2 and the regulation of programmed cell death

    Reed Jc

  • Endoplasmic reticulum stress: cell life and death decisions

    Chunyan Xu;Beatrice Bailly-Maitre;John C. Reed

  • Tumor suppressor p53 is a regulator of bcl-2 and bax gene expression in vitro and in vivo

    Toshiyuki Miyashita;Stanislaw Krajewski;Maryla Krajewska;Hong Gang Wang

  • X-linked IAP is a direct inhibitor of cell-death proteases

    Quinn L. Deveraux;Ryosuke Takahashi;Guy S. Salvesen;John C. Reed

  • Ordering the cytochrome c-initiated caspase cascade: hierarchical activation of caspases-2, -3, -6, -7, -8, and -10 in a caspase-9-dependent manner.

    Elizabeth A. Slee;Mary T. Harte;Ruth M. Kluck;Beni B. Wolf

  • ER stress-induced cell death mechanisms

    Renata Sano;John C. Reed

  • Apoptosis in the Failing Human Heart

    G Olivetti;R Abbi;F Quaini;J Kajstura

  • IAP-Family Protein Survivin Inhibits Caspase Activity and Apoptosis Induced by Fas (CD95), Bax, Caspases, and Anticancer Drugs

    Ingo Tamm;Yan Wang;Ed Sausville;Dominic A. Scudiero

  • Double identity for proteins of the Bcl-2 family

    John C. Reed

  • Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

    Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

  • Bax directly induces release of cytochrome c from isolated mitochondria

    Juliane M. Jürgensmeier;Zhihua Xie;Quinn Deveraux;Lisa Ellerby

  • Cell death and endoplasmic reticulum stress: disease relevance and therapeutic opportunities

    Inki Kim;Wenjie Xu;John C Reed

  • IAPs block apoptotic events induced by caspase‐8 and cytochrome c by direct inhibition of distinct caspases

    Quinn L. Deveraux;Natalie Roy;Henning R. Stennicke;Todd Van Arsdale

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanislaw Krajewski
Stanislaw Krajewski Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Maryla Krajewska
Maryla Krajewska Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Shinichi Takayama
Shinichi Takayama Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Juan M. Zapata
Juan M. Zapata Spanish National Research Council
Maurizio Pellecchia
Maurizio Pellecchia University of California, Riverside
Adam Godzik
Adam Godzik University of California, Riverside
Guy S. Salvesen
Guy S. Salvesen Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Hong-Gang Wang
Hong-Gang Wang Pennsylvania State University
Michael Andreeff
Michael Andreeff The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Peter C. Nowell
Peter C. Nowell University of Pennsylvania

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