Thomas D. Pollard
Thomas Dean Pollard (born July 7, 1942 in Pasadena , California ) is an American biochemist and cell biologist . He is Sterling Professor of Molecular Biology , Cell Biology, and Developmental Biology and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut .
Life
Pollard earned a bachelor's degree from Pomona College in Claremont , California in 1964 and an MD from Harvard Medical School in Cambridge , Massachusetts in 1968 . As a resident physician, he worked at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston , Massachusetts before moving to the Biochemistry Department of the National Heart and Lung Institute , a facility of the National Institutes of Health , in Bethesda , Maryland, as a research fellow .
Pollard received his first professorship in anatomy at Harvard Medical School ( Assistant Professor 1972, Associate Professor 1975). From 1977 to 1996 Pollard was Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , Maryland , interrupted in 1984 by a research stay as a Guggenheim Fellow at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge , England . From 1996 to 2001 Pollard was Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla , California. From 1996 to 2000 he was president of the institution, and from 1997 to 2001 he was also an adjunct professor of biology and bioengineering and chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego , also in La Jolla. Since 2001 Pollard has been Professor of Molecular Biology , Cell Biology and Developmental Biology and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut , since 2006 as Sterling Professor .
Pollard is married and has two children.
Act
Pollard is recognized as an internationally recognized scientific leader in the field of cell biology . His merits lie in researching the role of actin and myosin in vivo , their polymerization in vitro , in the field of rheology and crystallography and in the development of new research methods. More recent work also deals with actin-based cell movement and molecular aspects of cytokinesis .
Awards (selection)
- 1988 President of the American Society for Cell Biology
- 1989 Keith R. Porter Lecture
- 1990 membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1992 membership in the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
- 1993 membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1996 Rosenstiel Award
- 2004 EB Wilson Medal from the American Society for Cell Biology
- 2006 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 2015 NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
Web links
- Pollard Lab and CV at yale.edu; Retrieved February 8, 2011
- Thomas Dean Pollard, MD and biography at cellbiology.yale.edu; Retrieved February 8, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Past Winners - Rosenstiel Award - Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center - Brandeis University. In: brandeis.edu. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .
- ^ Thomas D. Pollard MD at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved December 14, 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pollard, Thomas D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pollard, Thomas; Pollard, Thomas Dean; Pollard, Tom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biochemist and cell biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pasadena , California |