Personal Statement
Professor Hollander graduated with a 1st Class degree in Pharmacology from The University of Bath and a PhD in Pathology from the University of Bristol. He then spent three years at an internationally renowned cartilage laboratory at McGill University in Montreal before returning to the UK to take up an Arthritis Research UK Fellowship and a Lectureship at The University of Sheffield. He was appointed as the Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology and Tissue Engineering at the University of Bristol in September 2000 and he was Head of The School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine in Bristol from 2009-2013. He was appointed as Head of The Institute of Integrative Biology and Professor of Stem Cell Biology at The University of Liverpool in June 2014. He is founder and CSO of a spin-out company, Azellon Ltd. that is developing a stem cell therapy for torn knee cartilage.