John A. Pollock | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) |
| Awards | AAAS Fellow
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring Apple Award for Distinguished Educator Emmy Award for Children/Youth/Teen Program or Special Emmy Award for Musical Composition/Arrangement Parents' Choice Award Carnegie Science Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Molecular neurobiology, Science and health literacy education |
| Institutions | Duquesne University |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Lipson, Seymour Benzer |
John A. Pollock, is a Full Professor of Biological Science at Duquesne University Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, where he researches and teaches molecular neurobiology. He is Principal Investigator for The Partnership in Education, a non-profit multidisciplinary health literacy and informal science education project at Duquesne University funded primarily through a Science Education Partnership Award(SEPA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a component of the National Institutes of Health.[1]
Pollock holds the additional title of co-director for the Chronic Pain Research Consortium at Duquesne University.[2][3][4] He serves as a faculty affiliate at the BrainHub at Carnegie Mellon University and separately at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC.[5]