Professor Stuart Reid
Head Of Department
Biomedical Engineering
Personal statement
Prof Stuart Reid FRSE is Head of Department and Royal Society Industry Fellow in Biomedical Engineering. He works in a multidisciplinary team working across medical and astrophysics/quantum research areas. He is co-inventor of “nanokicking”, where nanoscale vibrations are used to persuade stem cells to turn into bone in the lab (ACS Nano 2013, Nature BME 2017). He is in the process of co-founding a company (www.nanokick.com) to help supply bone graft (the most transplanted tissue after blood) for regenerative medicine. UK Charity, Find A Better Way (https://www.findabetterway.org.uk) is funding the first-in-man study of nanokicked stem cells, planned for 2024/25, with the aim to provide bone graft for patients injured by land mines. The first in vivo study of nanokicking using wearable vibration devices was trialed in partnership with the Scottish Centre for Innovation in Spinal Cord Injury at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.12.578222). Reid's lab is also developing and manufacturing some of the most advanced laser mirrors in the world, to enable future gravitational wave detectors to be limited entirely by quantum effects. The team has pioneered the first high-energy ECR (electron cyclotron resonance) ion beam deposition facility, manufacturing the world’s lowest absorption sputtered amorphous silicon (PRL 2018) and highest sp3 content sputtered diamond-like carbon (paper in preparation). Reid is Director of the Extreme Performance Optical Coatings testbed (www.epoc.scot) located within the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland.
Prize And Awards
- Appointed member of the Royal Society's Research Grants Board
- Recipient
- 1/1/2020
- Chair of the LSC Optics Working Group
- Recipient
- 28/3/2019
- FRSE
- Recipient
- 1/3/2019
- International Advisor to the Stanford-led Centre for Coatings Research (CCR)
- Recipient
- 1/9/2017
- Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- Recipient
- 1/8/2017
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers UK, top 5 innovations – “Black holes and broken bones”
- Recipient
- 1/7/2017
Publications
- Search for gravitational waves emitted from SN 2023ixf
- Abac A G, Ben Yaala M, Craig K, Fazio M, Gier C, Reid S, Wallace G S, , ,
- The Astrophysical Journal Vol 985 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc681
- Vibration-based cell engineering
- Johnson-Love Olivia, Salmeron-Sanchez Manuel, Reid Stuart, Childs Peter G, Dalby Matthew
- Nature Reviews Bioengineering Vol 3, pp. 408-429 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-025-00273-x
- Search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
- Abac A G, Ben Yaala M, Craig K, Fazio M, Gier C, Reid S, Wallace G S,
- The Astrophysical Journal Vol 983 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adb3a0
- Upscaling manufacture of osteogenically differentiated mesenchymal stem cells using nanoscale vibration and microcarrier suspension culture
- Williams Jonathan, Dalby Matthew J, Salmerón-Sánchez Manuel, Childs Peter, Reid Stuart
- 7th Termis World Congress (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2024.06979.abs
- Developing and investigating a nanovibration intervention for the prevention/reversal of bone loss following spinal cord injury
- Williams Jonathan A, Campsie Paul, Gibson Richard, Johnson-Love Olivia, Werner Anna, Sprott Mark, Meechan Ryan, Huesa Carmen, Windmill James FC, Purcell Mariel, Coupaud Sylvie, Dalby Matthew J, Childs Peter, Riddell John S, Reid Stuart
- ACS Nano Vol 18, pp. 17630-17641 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c02104
- Optical properties of germania and titania at 1064 nm and at 1550 nm
- Diksha D, Amato A, Spagnuolo V, Mcghee G i, Chicoine M, Clark C, Hill S, Hough J, Johnston R, Keil R, Mavridi N, Reid S, Rowan S, Schapals T, Schiettekatte F, Tait S c, Martin I W, Steinlechner J
- Classical and Quantum Gravity Vol 41 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ad3c8c
Professional Activities
- High throughput mechanical phenotyping of nano vibrated mesenchymal stem cells using real time deformability cytometry
- Speaker
- 10/6/2024
Projects
- BIOME: Bioplastic Injection-moulding Optimisation and Microplastics Evaluation
- Bomphray, Iain (Principal Investigator) Reid, Stuart (Co-investigator) Seth, Sampan (Co-investigator) Shu, Will (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- EPSRC DTP - The impact of spinner flask culture on extra cellular vesicle production
- Jimenez, Melanie (Principal Investigator) Reid, Stuart (Co-investigator) Childs, Peter (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025
- Helia Photonics - thin films to assess diffusion at interfaces
- Reid, Stuart (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- MAINSTREAM: EPSRC research and partnership hub for health technologies in manufacturing stem cells
- Childs, Peter (Principal Investigator) Jimenez, Melanie (Co-investigator) Reid, Stuart (Co-investigator)
- 13-Jan-2025 - 12-Jan-2031
- ViVitro SuperPump Pulsatile Pump
- Kerr, Monica Mary (Principal Investigator) McCormick, Christopher (Co-investigator) Reid, Stuart (Co-investigator) Stewart, Iain William (Co-investigator) McKee, Sean (Co-investigator) Wheatley, David (Visiting Academic) Seed, Elizabeth (Post Grad Student)
- Total equipment cost of £29,200 with £19,200 awarded from EPSRC Core Equipment Fund and £10,000 contribution from BME.
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Fowler, Dylan
- Schulte, Carsten (Principal Investigator) Reid, Stuart (Co-investigator) Fowler, Dylan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
Contact
Professor
Stuart
Reid
Head Of Department
Biomedical Engineering
Email: stuart.reid@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3137