
Dr. Metayer received her medical degree from the University of Bordeaux II in France, and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Tulane University, School of Public Health in New Orleans. She is currently Professor at the UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Dr. Metayer was a scientist at the US National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. Her work primarily focuses on environmental, dietary, and genetic risk factors of childhood leukemia and testicular cancer, which disproportionately affect the Latinx communities in California. She is the Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE), and the immediate past Chair of the Childhood and Cancer Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC). She collaborates with researchers at the intersection of various omics including genetics, epigenetics, metabolomics, and adductomics.