Rodney Eric Williams

Rodney Eric Williams is a Science Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC). Prior to EBRC he briefly served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed his PhD in Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with Dr. Diane E. Griffin. His research focused on investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive neurological dysfunction during mosquito-borne viral infections to identify potential therapeutic targets.

Outside of the lab at Hopkins, Rodney served as president of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Graduate Student Association, as a Johns Hopkins Science Policy Fellow, and as a Graduate Policy Advisor to the Office of the Provost. He also served as a Howard Garrison Advocacy Fellow with the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).

When he is not working, Rodney loves to explore the outdoors, go for walks around the water, and attend the symphony.