Dr Jennie Williams attended Savannah State University (BS)
and Tuskegee University (MS). She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University and
carried out postdoctoral work at Harvard before joining the Institute for Cancer
Prevention in Valhalla, New York. She joined Stony Brook University as a
Research Associate in 2004. She has received several research grants from the
National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute. Among these was a
K01 career development award, which allowed her to transition from a mentored
to an independent researcher. The data generated from this award enabled the
acquisition of an R01 award. Currently, she is addressing the underlying
genetic/regulatory causes associated with cancer racial health disparity—a
major health concern in this nation. As such, her group is assessing the
dysregulation of miRNAs (which represent emerging major regulators of gene
expression) and aberrant DNA methylation as factors influencing racial health
disparity in the incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer.
