We are pleased to announce that Michael Ward, M.D., Ph.D. will be joining the UC Berkeley faculty on July 1 as the inaugural Schekman Family Chancellor's Chair in Neuroscience. Ward will have a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience and the Division of Molecular Therapeutics in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. He will also be a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and an investigator at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
Ward is an internationally recognized physician-scientist who comes to us from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health. His laboratory studies the basic biology that underlies age-related neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and he works to translate his discoveries into new treatments for patients.
