Vernon Ward
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Viruses are well known for their ability to cause disease, but the diversity of virus structure and replication offers many opportunities to exploit virus particles, their structure and their replication for beneficial purposes. My current research involves both the study of pathogenic viruses and the exploitation of virus properties for beneficial purposes.
Research Interest
Viral pathogenesis, Molecular virology, Applied immunology, Host pathogen interactions
Publications
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Al-Barwani, F., Donaldson, B., Pelham, S., Young, S.L., and Ward, V.K. Antigen Delivery by virus-like particles for immunotherapeutic vaccination. Therapeutic Delivery, 5(11), 1223-1240 (2014).
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Herod, M.R., Prince, C.A., Skilton, R.J., Ward, V.K., Cooper, J.B., and Clarke, I.N. Structure-based design and functional studies of novel noroviral 3C protease chimeras offers insight into substrate specificity. Biochemical Journal, 464:461-472 (2014).
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Davies, C., Brown, C.B., Westphal, D., Ward, V.K. Murine norovirus replication induces a G0/G1 cell cycle arrest in asynchronous cells. Journal of Virology 89(11) 6057-6066, (2015).
