Jennifer Pollock

Dr. Jennifer Pollock’s academic career has been involved in research, training programs and course development, teaching, and mentoring. She began her graduate work with structure-function analysis of prothrombin and classical training as a protein biochemist with Dr. Richard Hiskey at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Dept of Chemistry. Dr. Pollock completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Ferid Murad, 1998 Nobel Laureate, first describing the purification and characterization of NO synthase isoforms. Dr. Pollock was appointed Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) in 1995 after 4 years as a Senior Scientist in Drug Discovery at Abbott Laboratories (now known as Abbvie). In January 2014, Dr. Pollock relocated to the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is a Professor in the Nephrology Division of the Department of Medicine, Endowed Professor in the Division of Nephrology, Co-Director of Cardio-Renal Physiology & Medicine Section, and Director of the Kidney Pipeline Programs. Dr. Pollock has mentored well over 100 trainees from undergraduate students, graduate and medical students, as well as junior faculty and early career investigators. Dr. Pollock was selected as the 2015 American Physiological Society Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Awardee. In 2016, Dr. Pollock was selected as the Harriet Dustan Awardee for outstanding Hypertension research and the 2019 Ernest Starling Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Pollock was selected as the 2019 Department of Medicine Max Cooper Awardee for Excellence in Research. In 2020, Dr. Pollock was elected as the American Physiological Society President. Dr. Pollock’s research career has focused on the interactions of the endothelin and nitric oxide systems in the regulation of vascular and kidney physiology and pathophysiology for over 20 years with funding from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health.