About the Speaker

Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD, 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 and SPORE in Breast Cancer. Dr. Polyak is an internationally recognized leader of breast cancer research. Her laboratory is dedicated to the study of human breast cancer with the goal of dissecting tumor evolution and use this information to improve the clinical management of breast cancer patients. Main areas of interests are: (1) breast cancer risk prediction and prevention, (2) drivers of tumor evolution from pre-invasive to metastatic treatment-resistant disease, and (3) novel therapeutic targets and rational combination therapies. Dr. Polyak have received numerous awards including the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, the AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research, the 14th Rosalind E. Franklin Award for Women in Science, and the 2023 AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research award. She is also an American Cancer Society Research Professor, NCI Outstanding Investigator, and a Weil-Cornell Distinguished Alumna Award recipient. Dr. Polyak is a fellow of the AAAS and the AACR Academy, member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and outside member of the Hungarian National Academy.

How to participate

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How to get your Participation Certificate

After the presentation, return to this course to take the post-lecture quiz. The quiz will consist of information that was presented during the session and should not be difficult if you watched the presentation. Once you finish and pass the quiz, mark the course as complete. Your certificate will be available for download as a PDF file upon completion.

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