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Biography
Mary Ward is a registered Dietitian having graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BSc Hons Human Nutrition and Dietetics. She completed her PhD at Ulster University in Nutritional Biochemistry where she is currently a Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics.Her research at the Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health (NICHE) is focused on B-vitamins involved in 1-C metabolism in relation to health ( specifically CVD, cognitive health, bone health, coeliac disease and pregnancy). 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.To date Mary has published more than 80 scientific papers in top-ranked journals across several disciplines. She has attracted significant external funding (over £4M) from government agencies in the UK and Ireland, the EU, Charities and Industry.Mary is currently Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust-Wolfson Northern Ireland Clinical Research Facility at the City Hospital Belfast and was Chair of the Nutrition Society (Irish Section) from 2009-13. Mary has over 20 years of teaching experiene at undergraduate and postgraduate level and is the Course Director for the BSc Hons Dietetics at Ulster.
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Associations of atrophic gastritis and proton-pump inhibitor drug use with vitamin B12 status, and the impact of fortified foods, in older adults
Porter, K., Hoey, L., Hughes, C., Ward, M., Clements, M., Strain, JJ., Cunningham, C., Casey, M., Tracey, F., O'Kane, M., Pentieva, K., McAnena, LB., McCarroll, K., Laird, E., Molloy, A. M. & McNulty, H., 17 May 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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DNA methylation of hypertension-related genes and effect of riboflavin supplementation in adults stratified by genotype for the MTHFR C677T polymorphism
Amenyah, S., Ward, M., McMahon, A., Deane, J., McNulty, H., Hughes, C., Strain, J. J., Horigan, G., Purvis, J., Walsh, CP. & Lees Murdock, D., 1 Jan 2021, In: International Journal of Cardiology. 322, p. 233-239 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of maternal folic acid supplementation during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy on neurocognitive development in the child: an 11-year follow-up from a randomised controlled trial
Caffrey, A., McNulty, H., Rollins, M., Prasad, G., Gaur, P., Talcott, J., Witton, C., Cassidy, T., Marshall, B., Dornan, J., Moore, AJ., Ward, M., Strain, S., Molloy, A., McLaughlin, M., Lees Murdock, D., Walsh, CP. & Pentieva, K., 10 Mar 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: BMC Medicine. 19, 1, 13 p., 73.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Vitamin D and Hospital Admission in Older Adults: A Prospective Association
Beirne, A., McCarroll, K., Walsh, J. B., Casey, M., Laird, E., McNulty, H., Ward, M., Hoey, L., Molloy, A. M., Healy, M., Hughes, C., Strain, JJ. & Cunningham, C., 14 Feb 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nutrients. 13, 2, 11 p., 616.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Critical review of nutrition, blood pressure and risk of hypertension through the lifecycle: do B vitamins play a role?
Psara, E., Pentieva, K., Ward, M. & McNulty, H., 30 Jun 2020, In: Biochimie. 173, p. 76-90 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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HEE/NIHR ICA Programme Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (CDRF) Scheme Review Panel (External organisation)
Mary Ward (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of board
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Panel member Health & Social Care Research& Development (HSC R&D) Doctoral Fellowship Evaluation Panel(NI) (External organisation)
Mary Ward (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of board
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Ribogene Participant Update PPI events Belfast-Coleraine-Derry: a series of 3 participant feedback events delivered across N.Ireland
Mary Ward (Organiser)
Jan 2018 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Strategic Advisory Board for Northern Ireland Clinical Research Facility (External organisation)
Mary Ward (Member)
2017 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of board
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DSM Pharma Event - Riboflavin (Vitamin B2): a novel treatment for Hypertension in latest trends of vitamins and lipids in therapeutic applications
Mary Ward (Speaker)
23 Oct 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk