Katherine Pollard
Katie Pollard | |
|---|---|
| Born | Katherine Snowden Pollard |
| Alma mater | Pomona College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
| Awards | ISCB Fellow (2020) CZ Biohub Investigator (2017-present) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Evolutionary genomics Functional genomics[1] |
| Institutions | Gladstone Institutes University of California, San Francisco University of California, Davis University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Thesis | Computationally intensive statistical methods for analysis of gene expression data (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Mark van der Laan[2] |
| Notable students | Samantha Riesenfeld Tony Capra |
| Website | gladstone |
Katherine Snowden Pollard is the Director of the
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator.[5] She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2020 and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.[6][7]
Education
Pollard received a B.A. summa cum laude in anthropology and mathematics from Pomona College and an M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). She was awarded a Ph.D. in 2003 from UC Berkeley for research supervised by Mark van der Laan.[8][2]
Career and research
Pollard is a leader in developing
precision medicine
.
Prior to working at UCSF, she held a
postdoctoral research position with Sandrine Dudoit at UC Berkeley and worked with David Haussler at UC Santa Cruz.[11]
Honors and awards
- Member, National Academy of Medicine[15]
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 2021.
- Fellow, International Society for Computational Biology. 2020.
- Gladstone Institutes Mentoring Award. 2019.
- Women Who Lead in the Life Sciences. SF Business Times. 2018.
- 75 Most Influential Alumni, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. 2018.
- Chan Zuckerberg BiohubInvestigator. 2017–present.
- Fellow, California Academy of Sciences. 2013–present.
- Breakthrough Biomedical Research Award, UCSF. 2009–2010.
- Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2008–2010.
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIGMS/NIH NRSA. 2003–2005.
- Evelyn Fix Prize, Chin Long Chiang Biostatistics Student of the Year, UC Berkeley. 2003.
- Valedictorian, High Scholarship Prize, Math Prize, Anthropology Prize, Phi Beta Kappa Award, Pomona College. 1995.
- Sophomore Math Prize, Pomona College. 1993.
References
- ^ a b Katherine Pollard publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Katherine Pollard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Katherine Pollard publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ^ Katherine Pollard publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Investigator Competition 2021". CZ Biohub. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- ^ "ISCB Fellows". www.iscb.org. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
- ^ "February 19, 2020: ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org.
- ProQuest 305339168.
- PMID 16136131.
- PMID 19858363.
- ^ PMID 17040131.
- PMID 22075116.
- PMID 22699609.
- PMID 22699610.
- ^ Frasure, Hannah (18 November 2022). "Scientist Katie Pollard PO '95 nationally recognized for groundbreaking biology research". The Student Life. Retrieved 2 December 2022.