Keith Williams

KEITH WILLIAMS is Chief Executive Officer of Proteome Systems Ltd. and
is the Chairman of Xcelerator Limited, a biotechnology incubator company
located in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Williams has a B.Agr. Sci.,
(Melbourne) (University Medallist), a PhD in Biochemistry (Australian
National University) and he was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson
College, Oxford University, UK. He had research positions at the
Australian National University and the Max-Planck Institute for
Biochemie, Munich, Germany, before taking up a professorship at
Macquarie University in Sydney. He built a substantial research program
in protein science which culminated in the establishment of the
Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, the world’s first major national
facility in proteomics. He trained 37 PhD students before leaving the
university to establish Proteome Systems in 1999. Dr. Williams has 270
publications, 20 patent applications and is co-Editor of a defining
proteomics text.