Kornelia Polyak

Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and a co-leader of the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Cancer Cell Biology Program. Dr. Polyak is an internationally recognized leader of breast cancer research. Her laboratory is dedicated to improving the clinical management of breast cancer patients by understanding of breast cancer risk and tumor evolution. Dr. Polyak has devoted substantial efforts to develop new ways to study tumors and to apply interdisciplinary approaches. Dr. Polyak has received numerous awards, including the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, the AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research and the 14th Rosalind E. Franklin Award for Women in Science. She is a recipient as well of the NCI Outstanding Investigator award and received a Distinguished Alumna Award from Weil-Cornell. Dr. Polyak was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Association for Cancer Research Academy in 2020, and to the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine in 2022. She is also a recipient of the American Cancer Society Research Professor Award.