Carmen Williams MD. PhD

Carmen Williams, M.D., Ph.D., is Deputy Chief of the Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory, and leads the Reproductive Medicine Group, and holds a secondary appointment in the NIEHS Epigenetics & Stem Cell Biology Laboratory. Her group addresses the mission of NIEHS by carrying out basic research to promote our understanding of the effects of the environment on human reproductive health, particularly during sensitive developmental windows. Research in the group focuses on the basic reproductive biology of early mammalian embryogenesis including gametes, fertilization, preimplantation embryo development, and implantation. This basic bench science addresses specific questions that have direct relevance to human reproduction, including how the environment influences reproductive success.