Katerina Politi, PhD, 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 Departments of Pathology and Internal Medicine (in the Section of Medical Oncology). Her laboratory is focused on studying the biology of lung cancer and on uncovering mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies and immunotherapies in this disease. At the Yale Cancer Center, Dr. Politi is a co-leader of the Cancer Signaling Networks Research Program, the scientific director of the Center for Thoracic Cancers, and co-director of the Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer.