Brian Ward

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Dr. Ward received medical training at McGill, University of London and Johns Hopkins (Tropical Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology). His research training began as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Quebec: Corpus Christie 1977) and continued at Johns Hopkins. He joined the Faculty of Medicine at McGill in 1991 where he is currently a full professor of Medicine and Microbiology and director of the McGill Vaccine Study Centre. Since 2009, he has served as the Medical Officer for Medicago Inc, a company in Quebec City using plants to make vaccines. Among other current activities, he serves as chair for the CIHR Institutional Advisory Board for Infection and Immunity, interim chair of CAIRE and co-chair of the scientific advisory board of GLOPID-R. His research interests include emerging pathogens, immunotherapeutics, novel vaccines and parasite diagnostics.