Bonnie E Gould Rothberg
Yale University, USA
Biography
Bonnie E Gould Rothberg is a Molecular Cancer Epidemiologist and Assistant Professor within the Department of Oncologic Research at the Yale Cancer Center with secondary appointments in the Departments of Chronic Epidemiology and Pathology at the Yale School of Medicine. She completed her MD (1994), MPH (2005) and PhD (2009) all from Yale University and joined the Yale faculty in 2011 following a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship. Her lab is invested in leveraging Ion Torrent targeted-resequencing to identify both germline and somatic genetic variation that are prognostic for early-stage cancers where, despite a curative-intent margin-free resection, the median 5-year survival rates approach 50%. She has also built and still serves as the inaugural Medical Director for the Yale Lung and Gastrointestinal Cancer Biorepositories, which combine biospecimen best practices with rigorous and robust clinico-epidemiologic annotations useful for evaluating gene-environment interactions that influence cancer outcomes. She has published over 30 manuscripts related to her work.