Professor Mary Ward

Biography

Mary Ward graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BSc Hons Human Nutrition and Dietetics and from Ulster University with a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry where she is currently a Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Research Interest

Her research at the Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health (NICHE) is focused on B-vitamins involved in 1-C metabolism. She has vast experience of conducting highly controlled nutrition intervention studies in different population and clinical groups. A particular interest of Mary's is the interaction between B-vitamins and a common polymorphism in the folate metabolising enzyme methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) which has led to the novel discovery (Patent EP2139488) that vitamin B2 (riboflavin) appears to be an important modulator of BP in individuals with a genetic pre-disposition for hypertension.