Daniel Ward

Dan Ward is the Lead Bioinformatician for the NHS Respiratory Metagenomics Programme.

His portfolio covers the R&D, engineering, deployment and maintenance of the analytical software platform supporting the Network. He works closely with UK Government agencies enabling the sharing of data, contributing toward strengthening public health surveillance and biosecurity capabilities.

Dan holds a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he continues to teach. He has training in Bioinformatics, Synthetic/Molecular Biology and Immunology for the study of infectious diseases.

To support academic pursuits, he built skills in software development, sysadmin and electronic engineering, applied to enabling and making research applications and outputs accessible for the wider audiences. His research interests focus on clinical metagenomics, biosecurity, emerging infectious diseases, diagnostic development and genomic epidemiology.