Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Yale University	BA	06/1993	Biology
University of California San Francisco	PhD	12/1999	Biochemistry
University of California San Francisco	MD	12/2001
Brigham and Women's Hospital	Residency	12/2003	Internal Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Fellowship	12/2007	Infectious Diseases
Harvard/MIT		06/2008	Clinical Investigator Training Program
Harvard Medical School/MIT	MMSc	06/2008	Clinical Research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Fellowship	12/2010	CPEP Medical Microbiology Fellowship
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	D(ABMM)	08/2011	Medical Microbiology

Dr. Nira Pollock, MD, PhD, D(ABMM) is the Co-Director of the Infectious Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also a faculty member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at BIDMC. She is an Associate Professor of both Pathology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Pollock is an expert in the development and evaluation of novel diagnostics for infectious diseases, with experience ranging from early proof of principle laboratory demonstration through translation to field implementation. Her diagnostics research has spanned a range of diseases including active and latent tuberculosis, C. difficile infection, influenza, malaria, Lyme disease, STDs, Ebola virus disease, HCV, and COVID-19. Her research has also involved a wide range of technologies, from simple paper-based lateral flow and microfluidic platforms to novel automated platforms for protein and nucleic acid detection, and a wide range of testing scenarios, from the high-complexity molecular laboratory to point-of-care testing (including in resource-limited and outbreak settings).
Since 2023, she has worked part-time as a Senior Scientific Advisor for Diagnostic Development Strategy for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at NIH, providing guidance to RADx/ITAP programs for diagnostic development and assisting with interagency pandemic preparedness efforts.
Dr. Pollock is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

• Diagnostics Development
• Infectious Diseases
• Clinical Microbiology