Reid Powell

Dr. Powell has a diverse research background, with expertise in cell and molecular biology, computer science, and lab automation. He graduated from Texas Tech University with a B.S. in Biochemistry and a minor in Biology in 2012. He then went on to obtain his PhD in Medical Science from Texas A&M University, which he completed in 2018. He has continued his academic career as a post-Doctoral research fellow and now as an Assistant Research Professor in the Gulf Coast Consortia’s Combinatorial Drug Discovery Program and High Throughput Flow Cytometry Programs at 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, which have been applied to the development and repurposing drugs across multiple disease contexts including cancer, pathogenic infections, and neurologic disorders.

Dr. Powell research interest also include the development and implementation of methods used to contextualize high dimensional data via integrative machine learning approaches that combine genomics, transcriptomics, chemical, image-derived and drug susceptibility data sources. To support these efforts Dr. Powell has built and maintains a distributed computing cluster that is housed between multiple CPRIT funded core facilities.