Carmen Williams

Carmen J. Williams is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive biologist. She has served as the deputy chief of the Reproductive Developmental Biology Laboratory at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences since 2017.

Life Williams earned a B.S.E., magna cum laude, in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1981. From 1981 to 1982, she was an engineer in the Computer Graphics Design Division at the IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York. Among her most important research accomplishments is the discovery of mechanisms that control how well calcium signaling works in very early embryos just after fertilization. In 2022, Williams was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her current research endeavors include exploring and elucidating the role of epigenetics in the reproductive consequences of neonatal exposure to xenoestrogens.