Keryn Williams
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Keryn Anne Williams is an Australian medical scientist who works in the field of ophthalmology. She was a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at Flinders University. Her research interests include clinical and experimental corneal transplantation, ocular inflammation, ocular immunology and eye banking.[1][2][3][4][5]
Williams was born 5 September 1949. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in 1971.[3] In 1974, she completed her doctoral thesis, Immunochemical studies of human cell surface antigens,[3][6] and flew to Britain on the day she submitted it. In England, she worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford with the Australian surgeon Peter Morris. Morris recommended her to his acquaintance Doug Coster, the first professor of ophthalmology at Flinders University, who hired her to work there as a research fellow in 1981.[7] She retired in 2016 but has maintained several fellowships and memberships with various organisations.[8]