Rate My Professor Reduanul Hossain

Dr Md Reduanul Hossain is a Research Fellow in the Mothers and Babies Research Program at the School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Australia. He completed his PhD in Reproductive Medicine at the University of Newcastle in 2023, with a project developing therapeutic interventions to prevent preterm birth, including a uterine-targeted drug delivery system and identification of eight novel synergistic drug combinations that inhibit contractions in pregnant human uterine tissue at lower dosages. He also holds a Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Science and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Greenwich, UK, where he worked as a Lab Demonstrator in the School of Science from 2015 to 2017. His career progression at the University of Newcastle includes PhD student from 2018 to 2022, Research Assistant roles from 2022 to 2024 in the School of Medicine and Public Health and School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, and Research Fellow since April 2024. During postdoctoral training, he established preclinical models including cancer patient-derived xenografts and organoids for studying gynaecological cancer progression and drug screening.

Dr Hossain's research interests include cell biology, drug combination therapy, nanomedicine, pharmaceutics, pharmacology, reproductive medicine, smooth muscle contraction, targeted drug delivery systems, and tocolysis. Current projects focus on encapsulating novel synergistic drug combinations into nanoparticle-based uterine-targeted delivery systems and examining the role of placental exosomes in promoting uterine contractility. Affiliated with the Hunter Medical Research Institute, his work advances diagnostics such as liquid placental biopsy using corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNA-containing exosomes for labour prediction and therapeutics to reduce preterm birth. Key publications are 'Preventing Preterm Birth: The Search for Tocolytic Synergism' (Reproductive Sciences, 2025), 'Assessing Tocolytic Potency: Variability and Accuracy of AUC Versus Amplitude-Based Assessment of Pregnant Human Myometrial Contractions Ex Vivo' (Reproductive Sciences, 2025), 'Assessing the Potency of the Novel Tocolytics 2-APB, Glycyl-H-1152, and HC-067047 in Pregnant Human Myometrium' (Reproductive Sciences, 2023), and 'Probing the Surfaces of Core-Shell and Hollow Nanoparticles by Solvent Relaxation NMR' (Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 2018). He has received the Early-Career Research Award (2025), Animal Care and Ethics Committee Animal Welfare Award (2023), University of Newcastle International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2017), and University of Newcastle Research Scholarship Central (2017).