Robert E. Pollack,Ph.D., serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Columbia University. As Professor of Biological Sciences and Lecturer in the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research of the Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Pollack established the CSSR to overcome the unjustifiable disinterest that science and religion have had for each other’s accomplishments by stimulating dialog, encouraging reinterpretation, and offering the opportunity for mutual enlightenment. Dr. Pollack has received numerous honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1995 Trilling Award for Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995). Since 1998, he has served on the Advisory Board for the Program in Religion and Ecology; Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University; and as a Senior Consultant for the Director, American Association for the Advancement of Science Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. In addition to authoring more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles on molecular biology and disease, Dr. Pollack has written numerous articles and books for the general public, including The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999) and The 1999 Schoff Memorial Lectures: The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith (Columbia University Press; in preparation). Dr. Pollack's current area of research focuses on theological contributions to the debate on a proper medical approach to cancer, infectious diseases, aging, and death.