Cancer Therapy

Biography

Kandace Williams is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Cancer Biology at the University of Toledo College of Medicine since 2001.  She was formerly a faculty member at the University of Alaska Biomedical Program.  Her postdoctoral fellowship was with Dr. Lawrence Loeb in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is currently affiliate faculty in the Department of Pathology.  She received her PhD from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School and her BS Cum Laude at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She has served on the NIH Cancer Etiology and Chemical Pathology study sections for several years is on the Editorial Board of Mutation Research and a Board member of American Society for Circumpolar Health as well as Council member of the Environmental Mutagen Society. She also serves in the UTCOM Institutional Review Board for Human Research Cancer Biology PhD Program, Steering Committee Cancer Center Program, Director  of Cell Biology and Pathogenesis section.

Research Interest

Mechanisms of DNA damage and repair of alkylating agents.Base excision and mismatch repair within different phases of the cell cycle. Mismatch repair-induced DNA damage response and cell cycle effects.DNA damage response effects on replication factories.