Professor Lizabeth A. Allison is the Chancellor Professor of Biology at the College of William and Mary. She graduated from the University of Washington with a Ph.D. in Zoology, concentrating in molecular and cellular biology. She is also the author of Fundamental Molecular Biology.

She spent eight years as a faculty member at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand before coming to William & Mary. Liz offers upper-division molecular biology courses as well as introductory biology for majors. She has supervised graduate students and over 100 undergraduate research students, many of whom have co-authored articles with her on thyroid hormone receptor intracellular trafficking in normal and cancer cells.