Sally Ward, PhDProfessor at University of Southampton and Texas A&M University Health Science CenterSpeaker
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Dr. Sally Ward received her BA with First Class Honours in natural sciences (Part II course, biochemistry), University of Cambridge, U.K., in 1982 and completed her PhD in biochemistry at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, under the mentorship of Professor David J. Ellar in 1985. From 1988 to 1990 she held the Stanley Elmore Senior Medical Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge whilst working with Sir Greg Winter at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K. She became an assistant professor in 1990 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Ward was promoted in 2002 to professor in the Department of Immunology at UT Southwestern and was appointed to the Paul and Betty Meek-FINA Professorship in Molecular Immunology in 2004. Ward joined the faculty at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center in September 2014.