Kornelia Polyak

Kornelia Polyak
Kornelia Polyak
Alma mater	Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University; Cornell University;
	Scientific career
Institutions	Harvard Medical School/Dana–Farber Cancer Institute; ;

Kornelia Polyak is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized breast cancer expert.^[1]

Polyak earned her MD from Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University in Szeged, Hungary, and her PhD from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences/Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She then did a fellowship in cancer genetics at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center with Bert Vogelstein and Kenneth Kinzler.^[2]

In 1998, Polyak joined the faculty of Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.^[2] Her research focuses on breast tumor evolution.^[3] Her research is funded in part by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.^[4]

From 2010 to 2013, she served on the American Association for Cancer Research Board of Directors,^[2] and from 2015 to 2019, she was a member of the AACR Women in Cancer Research council.^[2]

Awards[edit]

2007 AACR 27th Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research
2008 Elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation^[5]
2011 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research
2012 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research
2015 Outstanding Investigator Award, National Cancer Institute
2016 Rosalind Franklin Award
2019 AAAS Fellow
2020 Fellows of the AACR Academy
2020 Distinguished Alumna Award, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
2022 National Academy of Sciences
2022 National Academy of Medicine
2022 American Cancer Society Research Professor

References[edit]

^ "Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD - DF/HCC". www.dfhcc.harvard.edu. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD". www.aacr.org. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
^ "Genetics of Breast Cancer". ndriresource.org. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
^ "Kornelia Polyak | Researcher". Breast Cancer Research Foundation. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
^ "The American Society for Clinical Investigation". Retrieved 12 April 2019.

[1] "Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD - DF/HCC". www.dfhcc.harvard.edu. Retrieved 12 April 2019.

[aacr-2] "Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD". www.aacr.org. Retrieved 12 April 2019.

[3] "Genetics of Breast Cancer". ndriresource.org. Retrieved 12 April 2019.

[4] "Kornelia Polyak | Researcher". Breast Cancer Research Foundation. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2019.

[5] "The American Society for Clinical Investigation". Retrieved 12 April 2019.

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