Richard L. Ward, PhD
Title
Research Professor
Appointment
Research Professor of Pediatrics
Email
dick.ward@cchmc.org
Phone
513-636-7628
Fax
513-636-0950
Bio
Richard L. Ward, PhD, was born and educated through undergraduate training in Montana. He completed a PhD degree in biochemistry at the Unversity of California, Berkeley in 1969 and conducted post-doctoral research in Munich, Germany and the Roche Institute in Nutley, NJ.
Dr. Ward held postions at the University of Califoria in Los Angeles and Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, before joining the USEPA in Cincinnati in 1980. After that he joined the Gamble Institute of Medical Research (1981) and Children's Hospital Medical Center (1995). His entire research career has been on viral studies.
Credentials
PhD: Biochemistry, University of California, Berkely, 1969.
BS: Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 1965.
Awards and Honors
- ASM Lecturer
- Editorial Boards of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Virology, and Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
Ad hoc Member of NIH Study Sections
Research
Mechanisms of immune protection against rotavirus; development of rotavirus vaccines.
Professional Organization Memberships
- American Society for Microbiology
- American Society for Virology
Special Interests
Identification of viral agents of severe gastroenteritis; epidemiology of rotavirus infections and disease worldwide; pathogenesis of rotavirus disease.
Editing
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Virology, and Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunlogy
Special Contributions
Two awarded patent applications for rotavirus vaccines
Related Areas
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