Professor Graham R Williams

Graham Williams became Professor of Endocrinology at Imperial College London in 2005.  He obtained a BSc in Anatomy and MBBS from St. Thomas’s Hospital, University of London and a PhD from the University of Birmingham.  He trained as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA and as a Medical Research Council Training Fellow and Clinician Scientist Fellow at the University of Birmingham.  He was appointed as Senior Lecturer at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London (1995) and received an MRC Career Establishment Award.  He was promoted to Reader (2000) and subsequently Professor (2005) of Endocrinology.

Professor Williams is Head of the Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory in the Department of Medicine at Hammersmith Campus.  His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of thyroid hormone action during skeletal development and in adult bone maintenance.  This research is internationally recognised.  Professor Williams receives regular invitations to speak at International Scientific Meetings all over the world and the laboratory collaborates widely throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Asia.  Clinical Training Fellows, PhD students and post-doctoral scientists in the Molecular Endocrinology Group have received 25 prizes for research excellence in the last 10 years.  Professor Williams received the Society for Endocrinology Medal in 2011 in recognition of his outstanding studies, and was the Edwin Astwood Memorial Lecturer in 2011 for the Bermuda Hospitals Board .

Professor Williams is the current President of the British Thyroid Association and Treasurer of the Society for Endocrinology, and he serves as an Officer and Council Member of the Society for Endocrinology.  He sits on the World Thyroid Foundation Advisory Committee and was a member of the European Thyroid Association Executive Committee (2008-2011) .

Professor Williams has served on numerous Editorial Boards over the years and is currently an Editorial Board member of Endocrinology, Thyroid, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, Expert Review of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the European Thyroid Journal.

In addition to his research priorities, Professor Williams is Director of Education within the Department of Medicine and Head of Education for Clinical Programme Group 1 (Medicine) in the Academic Health Sciences Centre.