Dr Elizabeth Williams

Senior Scientist and Research Fellow, Centre for Cancer Research

Dr Elizabeth Williams, BSc (Hons), PhD, has worked in the field of cancer metastasis, focussing on prostate and bladder cancer, since completing her PhD in pharmacology in 1996. She joined the Centre for Cancer Research in 2006 to lead the cancer metastasis group.

Prior to joining MIMR, Dr Williams was an Associate Senior Fellow at the Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne and a Research Fellow (Prostate Cancer Group Leader) at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microbiology. In 2005, she took on the role of Chair, Think Tank on Prostate Cancer Models at the Australian Prostate Collaboration 7^th Annual Meeting, and also chaired the Basic Science/Research Session of the Urologic Society of Australasia Victorian State Meeting.

She has co-authored 30 refereed journal articles, and is a referee for Cancer Research, International Journal of Cancer and Endocrinology.