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36: 305:. In 2001, Pollard moved his laboratory to Yale, where he was appointed Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry. From 2003 to 2010 he chaired the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology. In 2010, President 420:
Thomas Pollard is married to Patricia Snowden, past president of the Maryland League of Women's Voters and cofounder of the Maryland Education Coalition. They have two children. Katherine Snowden Pollard is director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, a Professor at the
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named Pollard dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences at Yale, where he served until 2014. After retiring from Yale in 2021, Pollard was appointed Visiting Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley. From 2018 to 2021, Pollard was director of
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Yale's Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences. Pollard has been very active in promoting scientific education and federal funding of biomedical research primarily through two major societies, both of which he served as a past president: the
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now in its fourth edition published by Elsevier (2023). Numerous publications, teaching and public service awards, scientists mentored, and editorial boards served-on exemplify Pollard's extensive contributions to the fields of education and cell biology.
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in La Jolla, California, where he also maintained a highly productive research unit in the structural biology laboratory. Additionally, Pollard served as an adjunct professor of biology, of bioengineering, and of chemistry and biochemistry at the
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Along with co-authors William C. Earnshaw, PhD, FRSE; Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD; and illustrator Graham Johnson, Pollard is the primary author of the textbook
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Pollard, T.D. (2019) Cell motility and cytokinesis: from mysteries to molecular mechanisms in five decades. Ann. Rev. Cell Devel. Biol. 35:1-28. PMID: 31394047.
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and a professor emeritus of cell biology and molecular biophysics & biochemistry at
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is an associate professor in the biology department of Western Washington University.
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Sterling Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
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Following his internship, Pollard became a Staff Associate at the
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Research on cell motility, actin filaments, and myosin motors
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Gairdner International Award in Biomedical Sciences
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Pollard 391:, American Society for Cell Biology (2004) 80:Learn how and when to remove this message 249:from 2010 to 2014, and president of the 225:whose research focuses on understanding 43:This article includes a list of general 423:University of California, San Francisco 173:Gairdner Foundation International Award 14: 519: 567:Presidents of the Biophysical Society 329:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 298:Salk Institute for Biological Studies 251:Salk Institute for Biological Studies 378:, Brandeis University (jointly with 247:Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 29: 502:Yale University, Pollard Laboratory 303:University of California, San Diego 265:, receiving a B.A. degree in 1964. 24: 401:NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing 49:it lacks sufficient corresponding 25: 583: 495: 365:American Society for Cell Biology 312:American Society for Cell Biology 290:National Heart and Lung Institute 347:American Academy of Microbiology 34: 371:Pollard is a recipient of the: 480:. Pomona College. 24 June 2020 441: 278:Massachusetts General Hospital 13: 1: 542:Harvard Medical School alumni 432: 335:National Academy of Sciences 324:Pollard is a Fellow of the: 256: 159:National Academy of Sciences 7: 337:of the United States (1992) 10: 588: 415: 283: 208: 198: 188: 181: 154: 146: 132: 124: 101: 94: 552:Yale Sterling Professors 474:"Starr Named to Academy" 245:. He was dean of Yale's 537:Yale University faculty 478:Pomona College Magazine 64:more precise citations. 27:American cell biologist 270:Harvard Medical School 141:Harvard Medical School 557:Pomona College alumni 359:Institute of Medicine 229:through the study of 512:Thomas D. Pollard CV 449:"Thomas Pollard, MD" 427:Daniel Avery Pollard 117:Pasadena, California 353:Biophysical Society 316:Biophysical Society 261:He was educated at 253:from 1996 to 2001. 215:Thomas Dean Pollard 96:Thomas Dean Pollard 18:Thomas Dean Pollard 166:E. B. Wilson Medal 453:medicine.yale.edu 389:E.B. 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Thomas Dean Pollard
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Pasadena, California
Pomona College
Harvard Medical School
National Academy of Sciences
E. B. Wilson Medal
Gairdner Foundation International Award
cell biologist
Yale University
cell biologist
biophysicist
cell motility
actin filaments
myosin
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Yale University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Pomona College
Harvard Medical School
cum laude
Massachusetts General Hospital
National Heart and Lung Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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