Melissa L. Bondy, Ph.D.

Professor, Epidemiology
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Associate Director CRED-Houston, Leader Research Focus Area 1
mbondy@mdanderson.org

Education

The University of Texas, Austin, TX, BA, 1975, Psychology
The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, MS, 1982, Epidemiology - Environmental Science
The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, PHD, 1990, Epidemiology

Research Interests

• Molecular epidemiology
• Genetic predisposition to disease
• Glioma
• Breast neoplasms

Research in Dr. Melissa L. Bondy's laboratory focuses on the role of heredity in etiology of select cancers. She conducts a population-based case-control study of gliomas to evaluate gene-environment and gene-gene interactions and a genetic linkage study in genetically predisposed families using her family registry; evaluates association of DNA adducts in breast cancer etiology and identifies genetic and epidemiologic determinants of breast cancer survival. Ongoing research in Egypt focuses on early onset colorectal cancer. She conducts a feasibility study for a Mexican-American cohort in Houston and Hidalgo County (with Drs. Spitz and Strom and NCI investigators) to identify risk factors possibly associated with disease patterns in this understudied population. Dr. Bondy directs the Childhood Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Center, a joint center of Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Cancer Center and M. D. Anderson.