Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, United States
Dr. Melissa Bondy, is Chair and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Associate Director for Population Sciences at the Stanford Cancer Institute at Stanford University. She is s a McNair Medical Institute Scholar. She is an established cancer epidemiologist with a multi-disciplinary focus on translational research, and her research integrates the field of epidemiology with molecular/genetic data with clinical data. She is at the forefront of developing innovative ways to assess the roles of heredity and genetic susceptibility in the etiology of brain tumors. Dr. Bondy is an international leader in glioma epidemiology. As PI of the Gliogene Consortium (Gliogene Family Study and Glioma International Case-Control Study – GICC), she has led largest multi-national familial glioma study and largest glioma case-control study. The goal of this research has been to better understand the etiology of familial and sporadic glioma, and now evaluating the role ethnic differences in glioma etiology.