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.
After graduating, Pollack was awarded a New York State Regents Teaching Fellowship to pursue his graduate education at Brandeis University. His research would concentrate on the differential expression of leucine transfer RNA in different strains of Escherichia coli following infections by T2 or T4 viruses.