Katelyn King holds a degree in Biology from Emory University. A Georgia native, Katelyn enrolled at Albany State University while she was still in high school, graduating in 2020 with both her high school diploma and an Associate of Sciences.  

As she now embarks on a research career, Katelyn is driven by the desire to understand and mitigate health disparities, especially the disproportionate impact of certain cancers on Black individuals. This fall, she will join the lab of Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD (Clinical Investigator Award Committee Member ’09-’17, Physician-Scientist Training Award Committee Member ’15-’22), at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she will contribute to the team’s molecular analysis of human breast cancer—a disease with an alarming and persistent mortality gap between Black women and white women.