Assistant Professor @ Pitt/UPMC. Breast liver cancer metastasis, metabolism, immunosuppression and heme catabolism.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined September 2020
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Yesterday we celebrated two years of the Williams Lab with an escape room in our new lab jackets (yes, we escaped!). Looking forward to another fantastic two years!
What fantastic talks from Lexi and Angelica at the TRCCC annual meeting! #BreastCancer #tumor #immunology #TRCCC2026
Honored to be on this list of 14 grants awarded by the @metavivor !!! Very excited to work with our team of researchers and patient advocates to better understand the interaction between tumor cells and immune cells in breast cancer liver metastasis!
Big news worth celebrating! METAvivor is awarding $3.55 million to 14 researchers focused solely on metastatic breast cancer—with the goal of changing outcomes and extending lives.
Read our grant announcement blog to learn more about the 2025 awardees.
metavivor.org/investing-in-h…
We have a postdoctoral associate position open in the Williams Lab! Candidates should be interested in tackling a challenging project at the intersection of tumor metabolism and immunology. More information can be see in the flyer:
The 2025 Great Lakes Breast Cancer Symposium kicked off today @PittTweet @UPMCHillmanCC . We had several fantastic talks including a presentation from Tom Hintelmann a graduate student in the lab! #BreastCancerResearch #GLBCRS2025
Super excited to be in stunning Crete to present our work at the Liver Metastasis Research Network Annual Meeting! #CancerResearch @UPMCHillmanCC @PittTweet
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We're thrilled to announce our inaugural Science, Chilled & Distilled event on June 3 at 6pm at @lolevbeer in Lawrenceville! Come enjoy a refreshing drink while learning about groundbreaking research from Tullia Bruno, PhD (@BcellBruno). More at: UPMCHillman.com/ChilledandDi….
We had a busy weekend in the Williams lab volunteering for the @UPMCHillmanCC #RushtoCrushCancer bike race and participating in the @SusanGKomen #MoreThanPink walk!
Haven’t posted in a while…but the Williams Lab has been growing! Check out our new members here: williamslabpitt.com/lab-memb…
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Annual @sitcancer crew picture at #TRCCC 2025!
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Super thrilled to be at the @NIH to tell the NCI F99/K00 awardees about my career path as a cancer researcher! 👩🔬 @NCI_Training #CancerResearch
Thanks to the @NCICancerBio, @NCIDirector, @Adrianvlee, and all the speakers for a fantastic first day of the #2025NGW with excellent topics like supporting your team and science, expanding your research, and data sharing resources.
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#SITC2024 has been a blast including presenting on my favorite topic, immunosuppressive myeloid cells! Thanks to the organizers for the opportunity @BcellBruno and Eric Smith, and @LyndseySandra for the photography! @sitcancer @UPMCHillmanCC @PittTweet
Love starting out #SITC2024 with important reminders about T cell biology and what regulates their trafficking from @immunegirl ! @sitcancer
Very happy to be back at the @sitcancer annual meeting to present at the Primer on Tumor Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy tomorrow! @sitcancerECS #SITC2024 #CancerResearch #Immunotherapy
Attending my first Great Lakes Breast Cancer Symposium. What a fantastic/inspirational meeting and keynote by @AlanaWelm !!! #BreastCancer #Research
Attending my first Great Lakes Breast Cancer Symposium. What a fantastic/inspirational meeting and keynote by @AlanaWelm !!! #BreastCancer #Research
Super fun to participate in this panel today for the @UPMCHillmanCC Women’s Initiatives Taskforce. Take aways: everyone gets tough questions at posters, be prepared, remember that you are the expert on your poster, and if needed have an exit strategy.
Great conversation on addressing tough questions during presentations as part of our @UPMCHillmanCC Women’s Initiatives Taskforce luncheon series! Thanks to panelists including @BcellBruno @DelgoffeLab @YanaNajjarMD @mwilli323 and others.
Check out work from the @JenRicher3 lab and graduate student @LiWeiKuo7 where we targeted tryptophan catabolism by focusing on TDO2 and dual IDO/TD02 inhibition in triple-negative breast cancer #CancerResearch #BreastCancer
Recently published:
Blocking tryptophan catabolism reduces triple-negative breast cancer invasive capacity, by Li-Wei Kuo et al.
bit.ly/3ZIqV92
@JenRicher3 @LiWeiKuo7 @LyndseySandra @kioneillphd @mwilli323 @CUCancerCenter @CUCancerBio @CU_pathology #TNBC #openaccess
Thrilled to welcome Lauren Grove as the first rotation student in the Williams Lab!! Lauren is part of the new @PittTweet @UPMCHillmanCC Oncology Graduate Program and previously trained at Northeastern University and worked at Tango Therapeutics.