Research

Dr. Williams is a Co-Investigator on the HTLV 1 Research Project (NCI/UWI contracts from 1983 to present). She is the director of the Immunohistochemistry Laboratory, the first in the Caribbean, which was established by the HTLV1 Research Project in 1990, with financial assistance from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland and technical assistance from the Department of Pathology, Syaracuse University, New York.
The laboratory is responsible for the immunophenotyping of cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas providing important data for our local cancer registry. These studies are also carried out on cases referred from local and regional hospitals, including other Caribbean islands. Immunohistochemical studies are also carried out to facilitate the differential diagnosis of soft tissue tumours as well as the differentiation of tumours that show similar histopathological features. In addition, receptors studies for oestrogen and HER 2Neu are carried out on breast cancer cases in order to predict prognosis and dictate therapeutic choices in management.