Dr Mark Williams

Dr Mark Williams is a clinical scientist and holds a Fellowship of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia (FHGSA) in Molecular Genetics. He is Chief Scientist at Genomic Diagnostics, leading a team providing NATA-accredited germline, somatic and reproductive genomic assays. Mark has over 20 years’ experience in diagnostic pathology and genomics in both public and private laboratories.

Mark has a research appointment within the Developmental Disorders Group at Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland. He has recently completed his PhD thesis entitled, “Novel variants in Angelmann syndrome and related disorders: relationship to phenotype and neuronal function”.

Mark is a member of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA) Board of Censors, Diagnostic Genomics and is actively involved in the supervision of scientific and genetic pathology trainees. Mark has a clinical interest in improving patient care through translation and integration of genomic techniques into the clinical diagnostic laboratory.