Professor Roger Williams
Director
The Foundation for Liver Research
London
Biography
Professor Roger Williams is a British medical doctor specialising in hepatology (treatment of pathalogical conditions of the liver). He is currently serves as a Director for the Institute of Hepatology, an independent research organisationsupported by the Foundation for Liver Research, a UK registered charity which he set up in 1973. Roger Williams was part of the medical team that performed the first liver transplant in the UK in 1968. Since 2010 Professor Williams, aged 83, has been a Visiting Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, exploiting a generous funding from the Saudi Biomarkers Research Programme. He has been honoured with a number of awards over the years, notable the Lifetime Achievement Awards including one from the British Association for the Study of the Liver (2003) and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Association for the Study of the Liver (2013.
Research Interest
Liver transplant, Hepatology