International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) member profile

Stephen Andrew Ward

Prof Stephen Ward received his BSc. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of Aston in Birmingham (1979) and his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Liverpool (1985) in the UK. From 1985 to 1986, he was Research Fellow, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee before moving to Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Liverpool University in 1986. There he held a number of research and teaching positions until 2000, before being appointed Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Liverpool University.  

He has been working as Walter Myers Professor of Parasitology at LSTM since 2002, becoming Deputy Director in 2004. He has also held many management and administrative positions at LSTM, including Head of Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology Division (2002-2007) and Director of Postgraduate Studies (2007 to date). He has established collaborative links with many organisations, including the Kenyan Medical Research Institute, Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories in Kenya, Centre for Drug Research, University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, Thammassat University Thailand and GSK DDW.  

He is the PI on Antimal, a €20million EU initiative in antimalarial drug discovery, and has a key role in the Gates funded AWOL and IVCC product discovery initiatives. He was appointed Member of the MMV External Scientific Advisory Board in 2008. He is a regular referee for high impact scientific journals and is the author of over 200 primary data articles as well as 3 patents, and has contributed to 8 books in the area of chemotherapy and pharmacology.