STAR-K - Key Persons
Avrom Pollak, president of STAR-K, assumed the day-to-day leadership of STAR-K in 1981, when he left the world of academia to devote his administrative energies to our organization on a full-time basis. He was previously the Director of the Electron Microscope Laboratory at the University of Maryland Cancer Center.
Avrom Pollak's expertise spans the world of science and religion, with both rabbinic ordination from Mesivta Torah Vodaath and a PhD in cell and molecular biology from City University of New York. His vision and steady leadership transformed STAR-K from a small, community-based certification agency to one that is recognized and respected all over the globe.