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Overview

Elizabeth D. Williams is affiliated with Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their research spans major areas in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on oncology and cancer-related disciplines.

The main fields of study for Williams comprise:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broad fields, Williams has concentrated on subfields including:

  • Oncology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Cancer Research
  • Surgery

The topics covered in Williams' research feature:

  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor Research
  • Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments

Williams has published multiple recent papers, including:

  • "Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial-mesenchymal transition" (2020), published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "Deep learning in cancer diagnosis, prognosis and treatment selection" (2021), published in Genome Medicine
  • "Apocryphal FADS2 activity promotes fatty acid diversification in cancer" (2021), published in Cell Reports
  • "ELOVL5 Is a Critical and Targetable Fatty Acid Elongase in Prostate Cancer" (2021), published in Cancer Research
  • "Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Enhances Cancer Cell Sensitivity to Cytotoxic Effects of Cold Atmospheric Plasmas in Breast and Bladder Cancer Systems" (2021), published in Cancers

Williams frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Cancers
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Clinical & Experimental Metastasis

Collaborations and co-authorship have been significant in Williams' work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Ian Vela
  • Patrick B. Thomas
  • Erik W. Thompson
  • Cameron Snell
  • Penny L. Jeffery

Best Publications

  • Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial–mesenchymal transition

    Jing Yang;Parker Antin;Geert Berx;Cédric Blanpain

  • Epithelial--mesenchymal and mesenchymal--epithelial transitions in carcinoma progression.

    Honor Hugo;M. Leigh Ackland;Tony Blick;Mitchell G. Lawrence

  • Deep learning in cancer diagnosis, prognosis and treatment selection.

    Khoa A. Tran;Olga Kondrashova;Andrew Bradley;Elizabeth D. Williams

  • Mesenchymal-to-Epithelial Transition Facilitates Bladder Cancer Metastasis: Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor-2

    Christine L. Chaffer;Janelle P. Brennan;Janelle P. Brennan;John L. Slavin;Tony Blick

  • A novel orthotopic model of breast cancer metastasis to bone.

    Lelekakis M;Moseley Jm;Martin Tj;Hards D

  • Mesenchymal to epithelial transition in development and disease.

    Christine L. Chaffer;Erik W. Thompson;Elizabeth D. Williams

  • Controversies around epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity in cancer metastasis

    Elizabeth D. Williams;Dingcheng Gao;Andrew Redfern;Erik W. Thompson;Erik W. Thompson

  • Xenome—a tool for classifying reads from xenograft samples

    Thomas C. Conway;Jeremy Wazny;Andrew J. Bromage;Martin Tymms

  • Human Amnion Epithelial Cell Transplantation Abrogates Lung Fibrosis and Augments Repair

    Yuben Moodley;Sivagami Ilancheran;Chrishan Samuel;Vijesh Vaghjiani

  • Transplantation of Human Amnion Epithelial Cells Reduces Hepatic Fibrosis in Immunocompetent CCl4-Treated Mice:

    Ursula Manuelpillai;Jorge Tchongue;Dinushka Lourensz;Vijesh Vaghjiani

  • Expression and localization of GLUT1 and GLUT12 in prostate carcinoma.

    Jenalle D. Chandler;Elizabeth D. Williams;John L. Slavin;James D. Best

  • Hysteresis control of epithelial-mesenchymal transition dynamics conveys a distinct program with enhanced metastatic ability.

    Toni Celià-Terrassa;Caleb Bastian;Daniel D. Liu;Brian Ell

  • Pharmacokinetics and tumor disposition of PEGylated, methotrexate conjugated poly-l-lysine dendrimers.

    Lisa Michelle Kaminskas;Brian Devlin Kelly;Victoria Mary McLeod;Benjamin James Boyd

  • Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 by lymphatic endothelial cells is associated with lymph node metastasis in prostate cancer.

    Yiping Zeng;Kenneth Opeskin;Megan E Baldwin;Lisa G Horvath

  • ATF3 suppresses metastasis of bladder cancer by regulating gelsolin-mediated remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton

    Xiangliang Yuan;Liang Yu;Junhua Li;Guohua Xie

  • PPARγ-independent induction of growth arrest and apoptosis in prostate and bladder carcinoma

    Christine L Chaffer;David M Thomas;Erik W Thompson;Erik W Thompson;Elizabeth D Williams

  • Stem‐Like Cells with Luminal Progenitor Phenotype Survive Castration in Human Prostate Cancer

    Markus Germann Germann;Antoinette Wetterwald;Natalia Guzman-Ramirez;Gabri van der Pluijm

  • Parathyroid hormone-related protein: hormone and cytokine

    T J Martin;J M Moseley;E D Williams

  • Development of a Prostate cDNA Microarray and Statistical Gene Expression Analysis Package

    Alex J. Carlisle;Vinay V. Prabhu;Abdel Elkahloun;James Hudson

  • Calcitonin receptor antibodies in the identification of osteoclasts.

    J. M W Quinn;M. Morfis;M. H C Lam;J. Elliott

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik W. Thompson
Erik W. Thompson Queensland University of Technology
Colleen C. Nelson
Colleen C. Nelson Queensland University of Technology
Judith A. Clements
Judith A. Clements Queensland University of Technology
Martin E. Gleave
Martin E. Gleave University of British Columbia
Pamela J. Russell
Pamela J. Russell Queensland University of Technology
Ladan Fazli
Ladan Fazli University of British Columbia
Min Gu
Min Gu University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Jyotsna Batra
Jyotsna Batra Queensland University of Technology
Lisa M. Butler
Lisa M. Butler University of Adelaide
Edward W. Tate
Edward W. Tate Imperial College London

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