An internationally renowned researcher, Dr. Williams' work focuses on blood stem cell biology, leukemia, and gene therapy to correct genetic blood disorders. He has won numerous prestigious awards for his research, including: the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics; the William Dameshek Award of the American Society of Hematology; the Samuel Rosenthal Prize for Excellence in Pediatrics; the Frank Oski Award of the Society of Hematology; the Donald Metcalf Award from the International Society of Experimental Hematology. He is the recipient of the American Society of Gene and cell Therapy’s Outstanding Achievement Award for his work in gene therapy in 2012. Dr. Williams is has recently served on the Joint Oversight Committee of the Translational Research Training in Hematology program of the American Society of Hematology/European Hematology Association. And he is a councilor for the American Society of Hematology. Dr. Williams was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator for 16 years, is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His laboratory has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1986.