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] Her research focuses on breast tumor evolution.
[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.