Ted Reid

Ted Reid (born 1939) is an American biochemist and ophthalmic researcher, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and director of its Ocular Cell Biology program. He earned a bachelor degree from Occidental College in 1961, a master degree from the University of Arizona in 1963 and a PhD in biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1967. He was professor of ophthalmology and biological sciences at the University of California, Davis from 1984 to 1990 before joining Texas Tech. His early research examined the mechanisms of enzymes such as pepsin and alkaline phosphatase, and he later developed a contact lens with a thin selenium coating designed to prevent bacterial growth. He was elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2023.