{"id":361992,"date":"2026-06-15T23:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361992\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T23:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:06:46","slug":"division-of-biological-sciences-announces-five-new-faculty-hires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361992\/","title":{"rendered":"Division of Biological Sciences announces five new faculty hires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Ward is a leading physician-scientist in the field of neurodegeneration. He examines the basic biology that underlies age-related neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, Parkinson&#8217;s disease, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He arrives at UC Berkeley from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health, where he spent more than a decade as a senior investigator and practicing neurologist. Ward also co-directed the iPSC Neurodegenerative Disease Initiative, a public-private partnership that built the world&#8217;s largest library of CRISPR-engineered iPSC lines for disease research.<\/p>\n<p>Ward will have a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Molecular &amp; Cell Biology as the <a href=\"https:\/\/ls.berkeley.edu\/news\/michael-ward-join-uc-berkeley-faculty-neuroscience-and-molecular-therapeutics\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inaugural Schekman Family Chancellor&#8217;s Chair in Neuroscience<\/a>. He will provide a natural bridge to nearby clinical partners at medical schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a powerful combination of disease-related research and translational studies, Michael Ward will link basic inquiry with effective translational studies inspired by his clinical knowledge and experience,\u201d noted Harland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Ward is a leading physician-scientist in the field of neurodegeneration. He examines the basic biology that underlies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-361992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}