Dr. Reid specializes in cell growth inhibition and acceleration, focusing on the biochemical mechanisms of ocular cell growth.   Potentially, his research may lead to the use of growth factors to treat ocular wounds and drugs to control abnormal cell growth.  Dr. Reid received his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado, and was a visiting fellow with the Imperial Cancer research Fund in London.  Dr. Reid served on the faculty at Yale and as director of ophthalmic research at the University of California, Davis.  He has joint appointments in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Cell Biology and serves on the Western Eye Research Conference (WERC) board of directors.  Dr. Reid joined the faculty in 1990.