Katie Pollard | |
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Born | Katherine Snowden Pollard |
Alma mater | Pomona College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
Awards | ISCB Fellow (2020) CZ Biohub Investigator (2017-present) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Evolutionary genomics Functional genomics[1] |
Institutions | Gladstone Institutes University of California, San Francisco University of California, Davis University of California, Santa Cruz |
Thesis | Computationally intensive statistical methods for analysis of gene expression data (2003) |
Doctoral advisor | Mark van der Laan[2] |
Notable students | Samantha Riesenfeld Tony Capra |
Website | gladstone |
Katherine Snowden Pollard is the Director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).[1][3][4] She is a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator.[5] She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2020 and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.[6][7]