Personal details
Richard Pollock, born in Huddersfield, UK on 25th May 1985. Currently based in Basel, Switzerland.
Professional experience
Currently employed by IMS Health (February 2008 to present)
- Budget impact analysis for formulary approval and reimbursement
- Pharmaco-economic analysis and write-up for formulary approval
- State transition Markov modelling using TreeAge Pro for cost-effectiveness analysis
Education
- 1st class BA MSci in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, University of Cambridge (specialising in biochemistry)
- 5 A-levels and 1 AS-level (all grade A) from Greenhead College, Huddersfield in 2002-3
- 10 GCSEs (9 A*, including English and Mathematics; 1 A) in 2001
Publications and presentations
- Richard F Pollock and Boris Adryan. BioSAVE: Display of scored annotation within a sequence context. BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:157
- Invited talk on OS X Development and BioSAVE at the University of Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences in October 2007
Computing skills
- Highly proficient at programming in C, Objective-C, Visual Basic, PHP and Perl (including DBI with MySQL).
- Thorough working knowledge of HTML, CSS and XML
- Experienced with Windows, Mac OS X and OpenBSD UNIX
- Excellent knowledge of UNIX utilities and system administration
Distinctions
- Final year Masters project came top-in-year (85%)
- Third-year essay on the physiological, pathological and biochemical effects of excessive alcohol consumption came second-in-year (83%)
- Winner of Trinity College Science Essay Prize 2005
Other achievements
- Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award
- Millennium Volunteers Award of Excellence
- ABRSM Grade 8 on piano and violin