Biography
Dr Williams, after stints at the Medical Research Council and the Forensic Science service, completed a PhD in Materials Science at the University of Manchester. He then took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Biomaterials Theme of CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies in Melbourne Australia. Following that, he was awarded a prestigious Alfred Deakin Research Fellowship (2012-2014).
He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Medical Biotechnology in the School of Medicine.
Read more on Richard's profileResearch interests
Self Assembled Materials for regenerative medicine
Media appearances
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/seaweed-may-help-heal-injured-brain-tissue-australian-research-finds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2C4d34JXZ8
Publications
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Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Generating multi-component scaffolding to influence the differentiation of embryonic stem cells
Dr David Nesbit, Dr Clare Parish, Dr Richard Williams
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2014: $40,000
- 2013: $40,000
Biomaterials for the direct reprograming of reactive astrocytes into functional neurons
Dr David Nisbet, Dr Clare Parish, Dr Richard Williams, Prof Alan Harvey, Dr Vincent Daria
NHMRC Project Grant
- 2020: $30,000
- 2019: $44,386
Using Stem Cells and Oxygen Vectors to Enhance Graft Integration in Parkinson's Disease
Prof Colin Jackson, Dr Richard Williams
NHMRC - Ideas Grant
- 2021: $5,000
- 2020: $20,000
Supervisions
Lara Voglsanger
Thesis entitled: The relaxin-3 system in the mouse brain and gut
Master of Philosophy (Medicine), School of Medicine
Naznin Akhtar
Thesis entitled: Theranostic Applications of Zinc Ferrite Nanoparticles for Colorectal Cancer
Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine), School of Medicine