Robert Reynolds

Robert C. Reynolds

Adjunct Professor

Research

I received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Virginia in 1977 and a PhD from Duke University in 1985.  While a student at Duke University under Dr. Barbara Shaw in Chemistry and Dr. David Sedwick in the Department of Medicine, I obtained a diverse education in experimental design and basic research covering topics from cell culture, protein isolation and gel electrophoresis to organic synthesis and drug design.

After a brief postdoctoral fellowship at NIEHS in the Research Triangle Park with Dr. Robert London in the area of deuterated probe development for in vivo NMR metabolism, I began a 25-year career in drug design and synthesis at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, advancing to the position of Director of Drug Discovery Technology. Although involved in numerous diverse programs from chemical education and outreach, optimization of Bath and Body Works bubble baths, chemical and biological diversity acquisition, and high throughput drug discovery technology, my major areas of emphasis were medicninal chemistry and new target and drug discovery against cancer and infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis.

In 2012, I joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham to pursue a long time dream of supporting advanced education while also focusing on independent research in drug design against cancer and infectious diseases.