Katerina Politi, PhD
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Joseph A. and Lucille K. Madri Professor of Pathology
Co-Leader, Cancer Signaling Networks, Yale Cancer Center; Scientific Director, Center for Thoracic CancersBiography
Katerina Politi studied Biology at the University of Pavia in Italy. She then moved to New York, where she obtained her PhD in Genetics and Development working with Argiris Efstratiadis at Columbia University. Following graduate school, she joined Harold Varmus's lab at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and began her work on the molecular basis of lung cancer. She continues this work at Yale as a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Yale Cancer Center.
Appointments
Pathology
ProfessorPrimaryMedical Oncology
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Cancer Signaling Networks
- Internal Medicine
- K12 Calabresi Immuno-Oncology Training Program (IOTP)
- Medical Oncology
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Pathology
- Pathology and Molecular Medicine
- Pathology Research
- Politi Lab
- Program in Translational Biomedicine (PTB)
- SPORE in Lung Cancer
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Center for Immuno-Oncology
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Stem Cell Center
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Senior Research Scientist
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2010)
- Research Fellow
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2008)
- PhD
- Columbia University (2003)
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
- Columbia University (2003)
Research
Overview
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; Lung Neoplasms; Molecular Targeted Therapy; Pathology
Links & Media
News
- July 16, 2024
YCC 2024 Trainee Colloquium
- July 08, 2024Source: The Cancer Letter
The early days of EGFR: Herbst, Haber, Meyerson, Pao, Sequist present at Yale SPORE workshop
- July 05, 2024Source: The Cancer Letter
At Lung SPORE Workshop, experts reflect on the significance of discovery of EGFR mutations two decades ago
- June 21, 2024
Yale Hosts Annual Lung Cancer SPORE Workshop