Dr Sophie Reed

Lecturer – Blood Sciences/Immunohaematology, Biomedical Sciences

s.g.reed@swansea.ac.uk

Basic Welsh Speaker

Open Plan Office - 203
Second Floor
Institute of Life Science 1
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8099-3847

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About

Dr Sophie Reed is a lecturer within Swansea University Medical School teaching mainly within the Medical Pharmacology BSc course. Sophie was awarded a PhD from Cardiff University’s division of Infection and Immunity in 2022. During this time her research focused on T cell migration in influenza infection. Sophie then joined Professor Cathy Thorntons research group as a post doctoral research fellow in 2022, investigating the effects of air pollution in pregnancy as part of the RESPIRE consortium.

Sophie was appointed lecturer in Medical Pharmacology in 2023 and continues her research efforts in the area of pregnancy immunology.

Areas Of Expertise

Immunology
Pharmacology
T cells
Immune cell migration
Pregnancy
Virus infection
Air pollution

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Sophie teaches primarily within the Medical Pharmacology BSc degree programme, with involvement in other undergraduate biomedical science programmes such as the Microbiology and Immunology BSc. Sophie also has contributions within the Biomedical Sciences and Genomic Medicine MSc degrees, and the Graduate Entry Medicine MBBCH course.

Sophie has supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate research project students with laboratory and data science based projects.

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Taught Modules

PM-008 Foundation Skills Development 2

The module will provide the student with a diversity of laboratory and scientific skills in relation to the undertaking of undergraduate practical sessions in a safe manner and develop skills including molarity calculations, biological extractions, basic chromatography, an introduction into anatomical dissection and physiology.
PM-147 Introduction to Toxicology: The Dose Makes the Poison

We are surrounded by substances that may do our bodies harm i.e. poisons. The harm these poisons causes depends on our exposure - the dose. The science of toxicology, a discipline that crosscuts biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, is based on the principle that the dose makes the poison. This module will provide you with an introduction to toxicology and how dose-response relationships relate to the physiological effects of toxic substances. You will explore how they produce cellular and chemical changes that cause tissues and organs to malfunction. You will learn how the structure and function of these tissues can be affected to varying degrees and begin to understand how tissue may repair itself and when the damage is reversible, permanent or fatal. You will also learn how we use toxic substances to our advantage in both the laboratory and within the clinic.
PM-261 Pharmacology: Dynamics and Kinetics

Pharmacology is the science of how drugs act on the body and how the body acts on drugs. Pharmacology investigates the chemical and physical properties of drugs, how those properties confer actions on living tissues and how those actions affect health and disease. In this module, students will examine how the body interacts with drugs (pharmacokinetics) and how the drug interacts with the body (pharmacodynamics). Students will learn how the body absorbs, distributed, metabolizes and excretes drugs as well as complex nature of how drugs produce their beneficial, or harmful, effects in living organisms.
PM-354 Cancer Pharmacology

Cancer remains a significant cause of mortality in the modern world. Current and emerging chemotherapies, and the rationale, experimental, and clinical evidence of the pathways or molecules targeted will be explored. Causes of treatment-related side effects, and the therapies used to address these, will be discussed along with the mechanisms that lead to anti-cancer drug resistance.

Dr Sophie Reed

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Taught Modules

PM-008 Foundation Skills Development 2

PM-147 Introduction to Toxicology: The Dose Makes the Poison

PM-261 Pharmacology: Dynamics and Kinetics

PM-354 Cancer Pharmacology