Catherine Bollard, M.D. Baylor College of Medicine

Catherine Bollard, M.D., is a hematologist and member of the Bone Marrow Transplant Team at Texas Children's Cancer Center and The Methodist Hospital and is an Associate professor of pediatrics, medicine and immunology at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Bollard's research interests involve using cytotoxic T cells (CTL)and NK cells for viral and malignant diseases. She is a principal investigator on two clinical trials assessing the safety of adoptively transferred donor-derived virus-specific CTL for the prophylaxis and treatment of EBV, CMV and adenoviral infection post-allogeneic stem cell and cord blood transplant. She is also evaluating the efficacy of tumor-specific CTL in patients with relapsed leukemia or lymphoma in 3 active clinical trials.