Professor Bryan Williams is Director of the Hudson Institute of Medical Research, and holds an appointment as a professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. He is internationally recognised for his work in innate immunity, cancer biology and for his studies on protein kinase R. He has held faculty positions at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada, and was Chairman of the Department of Cancer Biology at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, USA.
Professor Williams received the 1990 Milstein Award from the International Society of Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR) and was President of the ISICR from 1998 to 1999. He has received the Maurice Saltzman Award from the Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation and the European Cytokine Society’s Boltzmann Award for international research collaboration. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the Australian Academy of Sciences and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Professor Williams is currently chairman of the Board of Biograd Australia, and Director of Cancer Trials Australia and Pacific Edge Ltd. He has published over 340 peer-reviewed journal articles and reviews.