Director of MRC/UoE Centre for Reproductive Health and Chair
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), King's College London | |
Bachelor of Science, University of Sheffield |
Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh | |
Listed in Who’s Who | |
Fellow Society of Biologists | |
The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award | |
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award | |
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) | |
2016 | Fellow of Academy of Medial Sciences, FMedSci |
Jeffrey W. Pollard is Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Reproductive Health and Professor of Resilience Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and is a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. He has a position at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York as the Louis Goldstein Swann Chair in Women’s Health. Professor Pollard received his PhD at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now CRUK) in London, UK, followed by a post-doc at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, a Lectureship at King’s College University of London before joining Einstein. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, He has received several awards most notably the American Cancer Society “Medal of Honour for Basic Science Research” for his studies in tumour immunology.
Dr. Pollard has performed research in women’s reproductive health for his entire career with a recent emphasis on the mechanisms of action of female sex steroid hormones in controlling cell proliferation and on the tumour microenvironment of breast cancer. In the former program his lab has sought to understand the mechanism of progesterone in negatively regulating oestrogen-induced uterine epithelial cell proliferation and in the preparation of the uterus for blastocyst implantation. In the latter area he has pioneered studies on the role of macrophages and demonstrated that they promote tumour progression and malignancy. His work has focused upon mechanisms behind these pro-tumoral actions of macrophages with a particular emphasis on metastatic disease.
Current research projects:
Group Members
Principal collaborators
United Kingdom
Claire Lewis, University of Sheffield
Neil Henderson UofE
Mike Dixon, UofE
Charles Gourley, UofE
David Cameron, UofE
Stuart Forbes, UofE
Bin-Zhi Qian, UofE
Tak Kitamura, UofE
Gillian Gray, UofE
Mark Vendrell, UofE
Caitrin Pritchard, University of Leicester
Cristiana Ruhrberg, University College London
Europe
Mye-EUNITER – UK representative for the European consortia studying Myeloid cells supported by the intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology.
Susy Scholl, Institut Curie, Paris
USA
John Condeelis, Einstein
Jeff Segall, Einstein,
Lisa Coussens, OHSU
Lisa Weichman, Montefiore, New York
Harriett Smith, Einstein
Rick Kitsis, Einstein
Steve Porcelli, Einstein
Current Editorial Boards / Society Service
2005 – present: Editorial Board, Molecular Oncology
2007 – present: Editorial Board, International Journal of Oncology
2007 – present: Editorial Board, Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia
2007 – present: Editorial Board, Cancer Microenvironment
2010 – present: Editorial Board, Onco Target
2012 – Present: Consulting Editor, Journal of Clinical Investigations.
Current Scientific Advisory Boards:
2006 – Present: Campbell Breast Cancer Center, Toronto (Dr. Tak. Mak)
2008 - Present: MIT Tumor Microenvironment Program (Dr. Richard Hynes)
2012 - Present: Chair, Scientific Advisory Board RAIDs Program-Curie Institut, Paris (Dr. Suzy Scholl)
2013 - Present: Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University (Dr Lisa Coussens)
2013 - Present: Institute of Science and Technology, Nankai University,Tianjin, China (Dr Luyuan Li)
2013 – Present: Breakthrough Breast Cancer, London (Dr Alexandra Bonner)
Societies:
British Biochemical Society
British Endocrinology Society
Society for the Study of Fertility
American Society for Microbiology
Society for the Study of Reproduction
American Association for Cancer Research
American Society for the Advancement of Sciences
Harvey Society
Royal Society of Medicine
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Recent Administrative Positions:
Current Teaching Roles:
2011 – Present: Critical Issues in Tumor Microenvironment, Angiogenesis and Metastasis (Dr Rakesh K . Jain, Harvard Medical School, Boston)
2012 - Present: 21st Annual Short Course on Experimental Models of Human Cancer- Harvard Medical School (Dr. Raju Kucherlapati, Neal Copeland and Nancy Jenkins)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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