Research

Research:

Dr Williams is a Co- Investigator on the HTLV I Research Project (NCI/UWI contracts from 1983 to Present) contributing to the histopathology aspect of this collaborative research. She was also involved with Immunotyping and Polymerase Chain Reaction in Malignant Lymphomas as a Matsumae International Foundation fellow in Japan 1989 90

Her main interest is in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology with the documentation of disease spectrum and prevalence, particularly, Barrett’s Oesophagus, Helicobacter pylori infection and its relevance to oncogenesis in the stomach; Polyps, Hereditary Polyposis Syndromes and Hereditary non-Polyposis Syndromes and their relevance to the genesis of Colorectal Cancer. She is also involved in the archival documentation of the prevalence and spectrum of diseases in Oral Pathology.

More recently Dr Williams has collaborated on the investigation of Renal and Liver Cadmium and Heavy Metal Concentrations with the International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Sciences (ICENS) and Ringspot Resistant Transgenic Papaya with Dr Paula Tennant, Biotechnology Centre, UWI.