Faculty Coordinator and Primary Lecturer
Dr. William Ward , Associate Professor of Biochemistry, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University and Director of C.R.E.B.B. Dr. Ward is a noted teacher and seminar leader with more than 25 years of experience with adult professional audiences. He specializes in the chemical and physical properties of the green-fluorescent protein and other proteins involved in marine bioluminescence.
Dr. Ward is also the founder and CEO of Brighter Ideas, Inc., a multi-faceted company offering premium proteins and high quality antibodies for sale, contract protein production services, and consulting and beta testing services for the biotech & bioprocessing industries. He brings to the company 40 years of professional research experience as a protein biochemist. Professor Ward is a pioneer in the study of GFP, having begun his ground-breaking research on GFP in 1973. He has chaired three international symposia on GFP and has amassed more than 100 publications on this protein. He is the first person to use GFP in college-level lab courses and in hands-on corporate biotechnology training programs and seminars. Dr. Ward's innovative, proprietary methods enable Brighter Ideas, Inc. to produce premium proteins at wholesale prices below those of the competition. The business plan for this division of Brighter Ideas is to produce, as catalog items, highly purified proteins used in research and diagnostics. Brighter Ideas provides the most complete protein characterization in the industry.
Visit this link on the SBS website (Society for Biomolecular Sciences) for an interesting article about Dr. Ward:
"Shedding Light on Green Fluorescent Protein"
Dr. Ward has co-authored (with Catherine Thomson, Ph.D.) "A Guide to Green-Fluorescent Protein: Applications in Cell Biology and Drug Discovery" for D&MD Publications. This resource-oriented practical guide presents an overview of the most important features and technological applications of Green-Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and its variant forms, and illustrates how GFP is currently being used in the biopharmaceutical industry.
D&MD Publishing is happy to extend a 10% discount to the registrants of the Protein Purification course and Biochemical Separations course. When ordering this Guide, please mention source code "9133-10%PP". To order the Guide, please contact D&MD's Customer Service Department at cust.serv@drugandmarket.com or call (508)616-5566.