Associate ProfessorRichard Williams

Associate Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • +61 3 522 73558 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

I teach HMM305 Cell and tissue Engineering, as well as supervise HDR, MSc and Honors students.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    HMM305 Cell And Tissue Engineering
    1 Jun 2024 - 30 Sep 2024
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    HMM202 Molecular Diagnostics
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Phenylalanine Position Regulates Peptide Self-Assembly, Silk Fibroin Co-Assembly, and Biological Function
    Suming Zhang - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Programmed Microenvironments for Muscle Engineering and Repair
    Peiqi Yang - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Harnessing Embryonic Bone Formation Process for Regenerative Engineering of Long Bones
    Gebreselassie Addisu Tilaye - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Role of placental immune response in origins of neurodevelopmental disorders
    Imran MD Ashik - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of sustained release formulation of GLP analogues and in-vitro release trends of polymeric Microsphere
    Priya Akotiya - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    3D BIOPRINTING OF MICRO- NANO FIBRILLATED SILK-REINFORCED HYDROGELS FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE URINARY BLADDER
    Saumya Saji Kochumoni - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Biomimetic, tissue adaptive nanofiber membrane for guided tissue regeneration
    Pratik Katare - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Valorization of red seaweed for multiproduct productions
    Thi Thuy Hang Hoang - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Recovery of functional polysaccharides from seaweed residues for applications in wound healing and tissue engineering
    BOI TUYEN LY - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Biocompatible transparent 3D-Printed Device for spheroid culture and mimicking hypoxic condition
    Samudra Bhaumik - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Synthesis of layered double hydroxides for sustained antibiotic release
    Smriti Sneh Verma - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of a Low Allergen Chicken Egg
    Tamara Gough - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Identification of cancer-specific biomarkers for breast and ovarian cancers by analyzing multi-omics data through computational systems biology
    Pratyusha Naresh - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Genetic Code Expansion of Self Assembling Proteins for Neural Regeneration
    Maruthu Pandian Ayyanar - School of Medicine
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Nanoparticle Therapeutics to Target Corneal Scarring, Haze, and Bacterial Keratitis
    Aseel Mahmood Ibrahim Al-Mashahedah - School of Medicine - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Theranostic Applications of Zinc Ferrite Nanoparticles for Colorectal Cancer
    Naznin Akhtar - School of Medicine - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigating Cancer Progression and Targeted Therapeutics in High Grade Paediatric Astrocytoma
    Dona Ann Johns - School of Medicine - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Targeting iron overload: A potential approach towards glioblastoma therapy
    Tulika Basak - School of Medicine - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Cellulose Based Hydrogel for Enhanced Crop Outcomes
    Prabhpreet Kaur . - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of Natural Biopharmaceutical Functionalized Renewable Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering
    Aksha Dhawan - School of Medicine - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of Chemical Antibody-Based Intraoperative Surgical Pathology
    Haben Kebede Melke - School of Medicine - 2025
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    A Safe Sanctuary Microenvironment for Islet Transplants
    Mathew Ian Harty - School of Medicine - 2026
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    The relaxin-3 system in the mouse brain and gut
    Lara Voglsanger - School of Medicine - 2021