Gail Williams Wertz

Background

Wertz, Gail Williams Daughter of Henry Clay and Elsie Lunsford Williams.

Education

Bachelor of Science, College William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pittsburgh, 1970.

Career

Professor University North Carolina School Medicine, Chapel Hill, 1973—1987. Professor, microbiology University Alabama Birmingham Medical School, 1987—2005. Professor, pathology and microbiology University Virginia, Charlottesville, since 2005.

Consultant World Health Organization ARVD, Geneva, 1984—1992. Editorial board J. Virol Virus Research, 1984—2006. Science advisory board Centers Disease Control, Atlanta, 2003—2006.

Advisory council National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 2003—2007.

Achievements

• Achievements include patents for human respiratory syncytial virus vaccines. Patents for gene therapy vectors and vaccines. Patents for attenuation of negative stranded Ribonucleic acid viruses.
  
  Patents for manipulation of negative strand Ribonucleic acid viruses. Patents for recombinant respiratory syncytial viruses. Patents for nucleotide sequences encoding bovine respiratory syncytial virus immunogenic proteins.
  
  Patents for prevention and treatment of respiratory tract disease.

Membership

Fellow: American Academy Microbiology. Member: Society General Microbiology, American Society Virology (president 1995-1996), American Society Microbiology (divisional group representative 1989-1991, editorial board, Journal Virology 1986—2007).

Connections

Married Laurence Andrew Ball, May 1987. Children: Jennifer Ball Truitt, Katy Ball Lemuz.

Father:

Henry Clay

Mother:

Elsie Lunsford Williams

Spouse:

Laurence Andrew Ball

child:

Jennifer Ball Truitt Wertz

child:

Katy Ball Lemuz Wertz