Dr. Pollet received his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 2010. In 2011, he came to the USA after being granted a Fulbright fellowship from the U.S. Department of State. Working at the University of Houston, Dr. Pollet developed innovative molecular diagnostics for tropical diseases. In 2012, he joined Baylor College of Medicine, where he has been involved in over a dozen vaccine projects and (co-)authored 35 peer-reviewed publications.