Dr. Williams is a professor of Biomedical Sciences at the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine and Chair of the Division of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences in Xavier’s University College of Pharmacy. As an undergraduate, he trained at Southern University at New Orleans where he earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology. As a doctoral student at Tulane University he pursued his PhD in pharmacology while studying the impact of HIV-Tat protein on hematopoietic differentiation and chemokine receptor expression. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Tulane Cancer Center, Dr. Williams studied kinase and nuclear receptor signaling crosstalk in breast cancer progression and drug resistance. He later joined Xavier University College of Pharmacy as an assistant professor of pharmacology and has continued his work toward the development of novel therapeutic targets in breast cancer, with an emphasis on modulation of nuclear receptor signaling. Throughout his career, Dr. Williams has been committed to mentoring underrepresented minority students/scientists in the biomedical sciences. Students/scientists that he’s mentored have gone on to be tenure track faculty, pharmacists, physicians and research fellows. He continues to work on developing programs that will expand opportunities for Xavier graduates in the field of biomedical research.