Katherine S. Pollard, Ph.D.
Director, Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology; Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub; Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics , University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Katherine S. Pollard is Director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology, Investigator at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Graduate Program at UCSF. Her lab develops statistical models and open-source bioinformatics software for the analysis of massive genomic datasets. Previously, Dr. Pollard was an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis Genome Center and Department of Statistics. She earned her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a comparative genomics postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was awarded the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, the Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Alumna of the Year from UC Berkeley. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the California Academy of Sciences.