Bonnie Dunbar | |
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Born | Bonita Sue Dunbar February 14, 1948 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Colorado Boulder, University of Tennessee Knoxville |
Awards | Best Paper and Presentation, 1973 Southwest Developmental Biology Symposium; honored as First Margaret Pittman Lecturer in 1994[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoology |
Institutions | Baylor College of Medicine |
Thesis | Characterization of macromolecular components of rabbit uterine secretions (1977) |
Bonita Sue Dunbar (born February 14, 1948),[2] known as Bonnie Dunbar or Bonnie S. Dunbar, is an American zoologist and academic who was the former professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at Baylor College of Medicine, a position she held from 1994 to 2004. Prior thereto she was an assistant professor in the same department at the same university from 1981 to 1983. From 1984 to 1994, also at Baylor College of Medicine, she also held a position as associate professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology. She is currently an honorary lecturer at the University of Nairobi. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Endocrine Society, the American Society for Cell Biology, and the New York Academy of Sciences. She is currently the owner of the Karen Blixen Coffee Garden Restaurant and Cottages,[3] as well as the treasurer of the African Biomedical Center.[4] She served on the editorial board of the journal Medical Veritas, which was published from 2004 to 2008 and endorsed anti-vaccine views.[citation needed]