Biography: Professor Pollard graduated with a first-class special honours in Zoology from Sheffield University followed by a PhD at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now CRUK) in London. He spent a post-doctoral period at Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto and thereafter, took a Faculty position at King’s College University of London. In 1988 he joined the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York where he worked for 24 years. At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Professor Pollard was the Louis Goldstein Swann Chair in Women’s Health, Deputy Director of the NCI funded Cancer Center, and Director of the NIH funded Center for the Study of Reproductive Biology and Women’s Health. In 2013 he moved to Edinburgh i as Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Reproductive Health (MRC-CRH). In 2020 Prof Pollard founded an immunooncology company “Macomics” dedicated to translating basic science to clinical efficacy in cancer. In 2022 he stepped down as Director of the MRC-CRH to concentrate on his research. Professor Pollard is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He has published over 285 papers and edited several books/journal issues including “Met