Upon graduation, Pollack received a New York State Regents Teaching Fellowship to pursue graduate work at Brandeis University, examining differential expression of leucine transfer RNA in different strains of Escherichia coli following T2 or T4 virus infection.
Following graduation, Pollack received a fellowship from New York State Regents to study at Brandeis University, where he would investigate the differential expression of leucine transfer RNA in various strains of Escherichia coli after viral infections with T2 or T4.