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5.08/20/2025

Fair, constructive, and always motivating.

4.05/21/2025

Encourages innovative and creative solutions.

5.03/31/2025

Inspires a love for learning in everyone.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages students to ask questions.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Lily

Dr Lily Williams serves as a Research Associate in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, part of the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. An early career researcher specializing as a Nutritional Biochemist and Immunologist, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Nutritional Biochemistry in 2023, along with a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) and a Bachelor of Biomedical Science from the same university. Since 2018, Dr Williams has conducted laboratory-based translational research within the Nutrition Team of the Immune Health Research Program at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute. Her doctoral work under Professor Lisa Wood examined the impact of soluble fibre interventions and their metabolites on immune responses and clinical outcomes in asthma. Presently, her research investigates nutritional interventions' effects on innate immune function and obesity's role in worsening asthma, with emphasis on nutritional and exercise therapies. She contributes to clinical and lab projects encompassing study design, ethics applications, participant recruitment, data analysis, and scholarly publications.