Rate My Professor Angela Reynolds

Angela Reynolds, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she joined the faculty in 2008 following her doctoral studies. She currently serves as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Humanities and Sciences, overseeing the Sponsored Programs Office, research development, internal grant processes, and other research activities. Reynolds earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008, with a dissertation titled "Mathematical Models of Acute Inflammation and a Full Lung Model of Gas Exchange with Inflammatory Stress," advised by G. Bard Ermentrout. She previously received a B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Asian Studies from Loyola College of Maryland in 2002. Her leadership roles include director of the doctoral program in systems modeling and analysis, director of graduate studies for the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, chair of the College of Humanities and Sciences Graduate Affairs Committee, and chair of the university’s General Education Curriculum Committee. She has participated in the CHS Leaders for Inclusive Learning Program and VCU HHMI Inclusive Excellence Program, serves on the editorial boards of Letters in Biomathematics since 2014 and Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, and was formerly program director for the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics activity group in Life Sciences. Reynolds reviews for funding agencies including NIH and journals such as Journal of Theoretical Biology.

Reynolds’ collaborative research focuses on the role of inflammation in wound healing and disease progression, including ventilator-associated lung injury, collagen accumulation in wounds with systemic mediators, atherosclerosis, and predictive models for pain in Sickle Cell Anemia. She develops multi-scale models and ordinary differential equations models with partners in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and medicine. As principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or co-investigator, she has obtained over $2.1 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, National Institute on Aging, and Jeffress Trust. Key publications comprise "A reduced mathematical model of the acute inflammatory response: I. Derivation of model and analysis of anti-inflammation" (Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2006), "Identifying important parameters in the inflammatory process with a mathematical model of immune cell influx and macrophage polarization" (PLoS Computational Biology, 2019), "Review of Mathematical Modeling of the Inflammatory Response in Lung Infections and Injuries" (Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2020), "Mathematical modeling of ventilator-induced lung inflammation" (Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2021), and "A mathematical model of pulmonary gas exchange under inflammatory stress" (Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2010). She holds memberships in Pi Mu Epsilon, Society of Mathematical Biology, SIAM, Association for Women in Mathematics, and Beta Beta Beta.