Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D., is Head of the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance and Associate Professor at The Rockefeller University in New York City, US.

She has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar from 2016 to 2021 and has been elected to American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2016.

Research in Agata’s laboratory is focused on DNA repair. In particular, Using Fanconi anemia and other genetic diseases as a backdrop, her research aims to elucidate the pathways that protect organ function and prevent cancer, with a focus on those that replicate and repair DNA.

Agata was invited speaker at the EMBO scientific conference The DNA damage response in cell physiology and disease, where she shared her newest results on the molecular mechanisms which safeguard the integrity of our DNA.