Dr Elizabeth Williams

Senior Scientist & Research Fellow

Centre for Cancer Research

Dr Elizabeth Williams, BSc (Hons), PhD, has worked in the field of cancer metastases, 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 metastases research group. She is supported by a NHMRC Career Development Award, and currently holds project grants from a number of sources including NHMRC and the Victorian Cancer Agency. She is also engaged in several collaborative projects with industry partners.

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 2009, Dr Williams was invited to be a keynote speaker at the annual Chinese Tumor Metastasis Meeting. In 2008, Dr Williams was an invited speaker, and chaired a session, at the EMT Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Conference in the USA. She was also an invited speaker at the Australian National Health and Medical Research Congress (‘Tumour cell plasticity and metastasis’). In 2007, she was an invited speaker at the Australian Prostate Cancer Collaboration Annual Meeting on the Identification of prostate cancer initiating cells.

She has co-authored 40 refereed journal articles. She is an editorial board member on the Open Prostate Cancer Journal, and in 2008 was Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Clinical and Experimental Metastasis (‘Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition’).