About Dr. Pollack
Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Dr. Gerald Pollack is an international leader in the field of water research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. Since then, his research interests have ranged broadly over the scientific spectrum, from cardiac dynamics and electrophysiology, to muscle contraction, cell biology, and for the last two decades to the role of water in nature.
Currently Dr. Pollack runs the Pollack Laboratory at the University of Washington, which focuses on uncovering some of nature’s most deeply held secrets. He is also the Editor-In-Chief of the scientific journal WATER, a multidisciplinary research journal that brings together water-oriented research from diverse disciplines.
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Honors & Awards
Professor Pollack has earned many distinctions, medals, and honors including the highest faculty honor bestowed by his university, the Annual Award Lectureship at the University of Washington in 2008.
- 2024 Integrity in Science Award, Weston Price Foundation
- 2023 UN keynote: Water and Peace
- 2023 Honorary Member, Luc Montagnier Foundation
- 2022 Vebleo Fellow
- 2021 Mary Enig Integrity in Science Award, Weston Price Foundation
- 2020 Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Majlis Presentation, Al Bateen Palace, UAE
- 2020 Water Science Award, Hydration Foundation
- 2019 The World’s 100 Most Inspiring People, OOOM Magazine
- 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, Chappell Natural Philosophy Society
- 2019 Laureate, Living Agriculture, Agriculture du Vivant
- 2018- Honorary Board, Weston Price Foundation
- 2016 Emoto Peace Prize, Inaugural Prize
- 2016 Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering
- 2016 TEDx talk, NewYorkSalon
- 2016 Appearance in Travis Rice’s sports-action movie, The Fourth Phase
- 2015 International Brand Laureate Foundation Personality Award
- 2014 Dinsdale Prize, Society for Scientific Exploration
- 2014 Scientific Excellence Award, World Academy of Neural Science
- 2014 International Summit Award, Award of Excellence, Society of Technical Communication for book: The Fourth Phase of Water
- 2014 Distinguished Award, Society of Technical Communication Puget Sound Chapter, for book: The Fourth Phase of Water
- 2013 Director- Institute for Venture Science
- 2006-13 Inaugural Chair- Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water
- 2012 Academician and Foreign Member, Academy of Science, Srpska
- 2012 TEDx talk, Guelph U
- 2012 Prigogine Medal for thermodynamics of dissipative systems
- 2011 Martin Hellsten Surface-Chemistry Award- AkzoNobel Chalmers
- 2011 Chair- US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Panel on Transformative Research
- 2009 NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award
- 2008 Founding Editor-in-Chief, WATER: A Multidisciplinary Research Journal
- 2008 University of Washington Annual Award Lectureship
- 2005-06 Advisor- National Science Board Task Force for Transformative Research
- 1996-06 Consultant- Whitaker Foundation
- 2005 Fellow- Biomedical Engineering Society
- 2005 Honorary Professor- Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Chair (joint, founding)- Gordon Research Conference on “Interfacial Water in Cell Biology”
- 2002 Honorary Doctorate- Ural State University, Ekaterinburg Russia
- 2002 Distinguished Lecturer Award- Biomedical Engineering Society
- 2002 Invited Scholar- Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Paris
- 2001 Fellow- American Heart Association
- 2001 Inaugural Fellow- Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, AHA
- 1998 JSEM Scientific Paper Award
- 1993 Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
- 1992 Honorary member, Romanian Muscle Society
- 1977-79 Board of Directors, Bioengineering Society
- 1979-80 NIH Cardiovascular-Pulmonary Study Section
- 1974-79 Established Investigatorship- American Heart Association
Beyond the Lab
Professor Pollack is in demand internationally as a catalytic lecturer. In his spare time in Seattle, he enjoys gardening, cooking, skiing, and ruminating on subjects as diverse as the origin of weather, the molecular basis of brain function, and solving the world’s crises (water, energy, health). He has also been known to build ponds, harpsichords, and tree houses.