John C. Reed (born October 11, 1958) is executive vice president of pharmaceutical research and development at

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technologies corporation headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its common stock is a c ...

. He was previously the executive vice president and global head of research and development of

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, the global head of pharmaceutical research and early development at

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, and the chief executive of the

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. He was a pioneer in the field of

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particularly with regard to cancer; he was studying

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and discovered that some of them appeared to regulate cell death rather than cell division.

Research

Reed earned his B.A. at the

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and his M.D. Ph.D. at

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. He then did his postdoctoral fellowship at the

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of Anatomy and Biology. He is a fellow of the

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