Evan F. Williams, Ph.D.
 Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology

 

Dr. Evan Williams is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Course Director of the Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology course. He received his Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology from Howard University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.  Upon graduation, he went to the National Institutes of Health on a three year Fogarty International Fellowship award for postdoctoral research training in the laboratories of Drs. John W. Daly and Phil Skolnick at the NIDDKD, where he made significant contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of action of the group of drugs known as the benzodiazepines.

Dr. Williams then proceeded to the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where he continued his postdoctoral training on an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Fellowship award in the laboratory of Dr. Alexander Clanachan in the Department of Pharmacology.  In this laboratory, he pioneered the identification of binding sites for adenosine nucleoside transporters in the cardiovascular system.  Dr. Williams became a faculty member at Morehouse School of Medicine in 1984.  In addition to his research activities, Dr Williams participates in the teaching of the Medical Pharmacology Course and serves in several institutional standing committees.