Jeffrey Pollard

Centre for the Study of Reproductive Health & Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States of America

Jeffrey W. Pollard graduated from the University of Sheffield and received a Ph.D from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, UK, in 1975. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Canada, he became faculty at the University of London, King’s College. In 1988 he joined the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and in 1993 became a Professor of Developmental and Molecular Biology, currently he is also Deputy Director of the Cancer Center and Director for the “Center for the Study of Reproductive Biology and Women’s Health”.

His research interests are in:
1) Placental immunity
2) Role of macrophages in development and cancer
3) Mechanism of action of the female sex steroid hormones, estradiol-17b and Progesterone

Associations:
- New York Academy of Sciences
- Society for Study of Reproductive Biology
- Biochemical Society
- American Association of Cancer Research
- American Association of Immunologists
- Society for Study of Fertility
- Harvey Society

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Women's Health > Reproductive Immunology (since 15 November 2005)

Links

http://www.aecom.yu.edu/dmb/pollard.htm

All recent recommendations

• 6.5
  p53 regulates maternal reproduction through LIF.
  Recommended by Takashi Minegishi, Barbara Anne Croy, Jeffrey Pollard
  
• 6.4
  Deficiency in catechol-O-methyltransferase and 2-methoxyoestradiol is associated with pre-eclampsia.
  Recommended by Jill Mhyre, Jeffrey Pollard
  
• 3.0
  A pivotal role for galectin-1 in fetomaternal tolerance.
  Recommended by Jeffrey Pollard with Elizabeth Xuan Qiu
  
• 3.0
  Sensitive ChIP-DSL technology reveals an extensive estrogen receptor alpha-binding program on human gene promoters.
  Recommended by Jeffrey Pollard with Dr Bo Chen
  
• 6.0
  Indian hedgehog is a major mediator of progesterone signaling in the mouse uterus.
  Recommended by Jeffrey Pollard
  
• 9.9
  Decidual NK cells regulate key developmental processes at the human fetal-maternal interface.
  Recommended by Vikki Abrahams, Ashley Moffett, Philippe Le Bouteiller, Jeffrey Pollard
  
• 6.0
  Macrophage/cancer cell interactions mediate hormone resistance by a nuclear receptor derepression pathway.
  Recommended by Jeffrey Pollard