Professor Bryan Williams is the Director of the Monash Institute of Medical Research and also heads the Centre for Cancer Research at MIMR.
Professor Williams was previously the Chairman of the Department of Cancer Biology at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was also an Associate Director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Cleveland.
Professor Williams has a distinguished career in cancer research. He has previously worked in New Zealand, England, Canada and America, specialising in the molecular biology of tumour suppression, and focusing on the role tumour suppressor genes may play in regulating cell growth, maturation and apoptosis (programmed cell death). He is internationally recognised for his contributions to research on Wilms Tumour, a cancer of the kidney that primarily affects children, for studies on protein kinase R, an important cellular signalling molecule and for work on innate immunity.
Professor Williams joined the board of Marshall Edwards, Inc., in March 2006. |