Carl F. Ware

Carl F. Ware, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases Center and Member of NCI designated Cancer Center at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Dr. Ware is a leading immunologist internationally recognized for his scientific discoveries and advances in the study of the immune system that are leading to new therapeutics for autoimmune diseases and cancer. A third-generation Southern Californian, Dr. Ware received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the University of California, Irvine, and was awarded a prestigious National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health to support his postdoctoral training in biochemistry and immunology at the University of Texas and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ware established his research laboratory in Immunology at the University of California, Riverside, in 1981 and relocated in 1996 to San Diego, serving as founding Director of Molecular Immunology at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.