Brief Career Summary:

Dr. Reynolds’ entire 48-year research career has focused on “Problems of Pregnancy,” which have major socioeconomic and health implications for livestock and for humans as well. These problems of pregnancy include infertility (the inability to conceive and establish a pregnancy), poor pregnancy outcomes (primarily reflected by low birthweight), and premature birth. Dr. Reynolds is a founding Director and currently Co-Director of the Center for Nutrition and Pregnancy at his home institution, North Dakota State University (线上赌博app).

Along with numerous collaborators throughout the world, Dr. Reynolds helped establish that increases in placental (uterine and umbilical) blood flows are key to normal placental function (i.e., nutrient, respiratory gas, and waste transport between the maternal and fetal systems) throughout pregnancy. Subsequently, they were the first to show that the placenta produces angiogenic factors that promote its dramatic vascular development, which underlies the sustained increases in placental blood flows. Recognizing that placental growth also is a key component of placental function, they were among the first to develop methods to evaluate the rate of cell turnover in vivo, including that of the placenta. Dr. Reynolds and colleagues have shown that the detrimental effects of maternal stressors (especially maternal malnutrition, but also maternal age, maternal and fetal breed, and assisted reproductive technologies) on placental development begin very early in pregnancy, thereby altering placental function and consequently affecting fetal growth and development. They also were among the first to recognize and investigate the immediate impact and long-term consequences of ‘developmental programming’ of fetal and postnatal growth and development in livestock. Currently, Dr. Reynolds and colleagues are investigating therapeutic and management strategies to improve fertility and pregnancy outcomes, as well as the role of the placental steroid metabolome in fetal organ maturation, birth, and postnatal survival.

Dr. Reynolds Has been Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on 43 federal grants (~ $17.5 million total grant funds received) from agencies including NIH (13 grants), NSF (10 grants), USDA (16 grants), and 2 Fulbright Senior Scholar/Specialist awards (2017 and 2022) to teach and do collaborative research with the Physiology of Reproduction group, Veterinary Faculty, University of Murcia, Spain.

He has published more than 290 books, book chapters and journal articles including 45 invited reviews. Forty-five of his publications have been cited 100 or more times. In total, his publications have been cited more than 19,500 times and have an h-index of 71 (see Google Scholar).

Dr. Reynolds Is the upper 2.0% overall (all STEM fields) of top-cited researchers in the world and in the upper 0.5% of top-cited researchers in his primary field (Dairy & Animal Sciences; Ioannidis et al., 2020; ScholarGPS, 2024; Ioannidis, 2024).

Dr. Reynolds has served, since 1986, on 73 federal grant-review panels for NIH (59, chair of 7), USDA (10, chair of 2), NSF (1, ad hoc reviewer), and the Fulbright Scholar Program (3). Has also reviewed grants for federal programs in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, the U.K., Norway, Poland, Spain, and Switzerland.

Dr. Reynolds has received the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) Animal Growth and Development Award, the ASAS Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Award, the Dahl Excellence in Research and the Waldron Excellence in Research Awards at 线上赌博app, and the 51st 线上赌博app Faculty Lectureship. In 2016, he was named Fellow of ASAS, the highest honor bestowed by the society.

He has taught and lectured in more than 25 different undergraduate and graduate courses in Animal Genetics, Cell Biology, Endocrinology, Growth Biology, Nutritional Science, and Reproductive Biology and mentored more than 35 undergraduate research interns, 18 graduate students (7 MS, 11 PhD), and 30 postdoctoral fellows, visiting scientists and junior faculty. He was Co-Director (2012-16) of the Frontiers in Reproduction advanced summer course at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, MA, where he served as a Faculty/Scientific Course Consultant for 11 years (2009-2019).

Dr. Reynolds has co-organized or spoken at more than 60 national/international symposia and held 16 Visiting Professorships and Keynote Speakerships throughout the world. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Animal Science, the world’s top-ranked Animal Science journal.

He also was involved with a national effort promoting farm animals as dual-use models for agricultural and biomedical research, as well as with national/international efforts to highlight the importance of funding for livestock research, which is critical to solving problems of pregnancy, food security, and agricultural sustainability.