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Kornelia Polyak

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Kornelia Polyak
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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]

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  1. ^ "Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD - DF/HCC". www.dfhcc.harvard.edu. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "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.