Polina Valeriivna Lishko[a] (born 1974) is an American cellular and developmental biologist.
[5] Polina V. Lishko was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine) in 1974.
She completed her Ph.D. in 2000 under the supervision of Oleg Alexandrovich Krishtal at the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology in Ukraine.
[6] After obtaining her Ph.D., Lishko was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the Rachelle Gaudet lab.
In 2022, Lishko was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Awards.