New Director for Centre for Reproductive Health
21 November 2012
Professor Jeffrey Pollard has been appointed Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh (MRC CRH). He is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Reproductive Biology and Women’s Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he holds the Louis Goldstein Swan Chair in Women’s Cancer Research.
Professor David Lomas, Chair of the MRC Population and Systems Medicine Board, helped to make the appointment, said: ''Professor Jeffrey Pollard has an excellent record in reproductive research that complements the scientific portfolio at the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health so he not only fits very well with existing research strengths but is the ideal candidate to set the centre's future direction. In welcoming Professor Pollard to Edinburgh I'd also like to thank inaugural director Professor Philippa Saunders for her leadership in CRH's early years.''
Professor Saunders said: “I believe Professor Pollard’s appointment marks the start of a new and exciting era for MRC CRH and I am very much looking forward to working with him both in my capacity as a principle investigator within the centre and as Director of Postgraduate Research for the University’s College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.”
Professor Pollard will arrive in Edinburgh in January 2013.
