Kornelia Polyak is a professor of medicine at
Harvard Medical School
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and an internationally recognized
breast cancer
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expert.
Polyak earned her MD from
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University in
Szeged, Hungary
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, and her PhD from
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
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Prog ...
/
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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in
New York City
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. She then did a fellowship in
cancer genetics
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at
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center with
Bert Vogelstein
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and
Kenneth Kinzler.
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In 1998, Polyak joined the faculty of ]Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
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.[ Her research focuses on breast tumor evolution. Her research is funded in part by the ]Breast Cancer Research Foundation
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.
From 2010 to 2013, she served on the American Association for Cancer Research
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Board of Directors,
Awards
* 2007 AACR 27th Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research
* 2008 Elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation
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Organization and purpose
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Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research
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* 2012 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research
* 2015 Outstanding Investigator Award, National Cancer Institute
* 2016 Rosalind Franklin Award
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* 2019 AAAS Fellow
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Places
*Fellows, California, USA
*Fellows, Wisconsin, ghost town, USA
Other uses
* Fellowes, Inc., manufacturer of workspace products
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* 2020 Distinguished Alumna Award, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
* 2022 National Academy of Sciences
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* 2022 National Academy of Medicine
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* 2022 American Cancer Society Research Professor
References
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Harvard Medical School faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences