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Dr John Reynolds is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology at the University of Birmingham and an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

John qualified from the University of Birmingham in 2005 and became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008.  In 2006/7 he completed an Academic Foundation Programme in Birmingham with Professor Caroline Gordon.  In 2007, he moved to Manchester as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and subsequently an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer (with Professor Ian Bruce).  Between 2010 and 2014 he completed a North West England MRC Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Clinical Research Training Fellowship, leading to a PhD, which included 3 months as a visiting scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with Dr Mariana Kaplan.  In 2018 he was awarded a Certificate in Human Pharmacology by the RCP Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and in 2019 he moved to the University of Birmingham.

John is a member of the BILAG group and has oversite of the lupus cohort in Birmingham.  His research interests are in the role of the innate immune system in SLE (especially type 1 interferons), lupus skin disease, and understanding the heterogeneity of SLE to predict drug responses and identify new treatment targets.