Tanea Reed, PhD

Tanea Reed, PhD completed her undergraduate studies at Virginia Tech and was then chosen as a Virginia Governor’s Fellow. She worked at the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Consolidated Laboratory Services performing DNA fingerprinting on food outbreak investigations. Reed then entered the chemistry graduate program at the University of Kentucky in the fall of 2003. There, she focused on biological chemistry under the guidance of Dr. D. Allan Butterfield by investigating oxidative stress in the brain in mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer’s disease with a focus on its implications for Alzheimer’s disease. After matriculating from UK, she began her teaching career as an adjunct professor at Berea College in 2008. She began a faculty position at Eastern Kentucky University in 2008. In 2010, she was awarded the Hermann Esterbauer award for young investigators for research in the field of lipid peroxidation, where she presented her research in Turin, Italy. In 2013, she was awarded an academic enrichment research award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Reed is committed to mentoring the next generation of scientists and faculty. She is currently the chair and professor of biochemistry for the department of chemistry at Eastern Kentucky University, where she focuses her research efforts on traumatic brain injury post therapeutic strategies.