Organizing Committee Member
James Koudy Williams
Professor
Wake Forest School of Medicine
USA
Biography
James K.Williams have been at Wake Forest University for 30 years. During that time, his research focus has been women health. While now a faculty member of Regenerative Medicine, his past research focused on the use of animal models to explore the effects of aging and sex hormones on the cardiovascular and urogenital systems. When moving to the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), his focus remained on women health and was funded for 4 years and now funded for an additional 4 years to explore the utility of cell therapy for urinary incontinence by using nonhuman primates as the animal model.
Research Area
Cell Therapy,Estrogen Replacement Therapy,Ovariectomy, Apolipoproteins,Drug interactions,Gene Expression Regulation