Peter Sicinski, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in the Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.  His laboratory uses genetic, genomic, and proteomic approaches to study the molecular functions of the core cell cycle machinery in normal development and various disease states, such as cancer.  A native of Poland, Sicinski received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Warsaw Medical University in Warsaw, Poland.  Concurrently, he was a visiting fellow at the MRC Molecular Neurobiology Unit, University of Cambridge Medical School in Cambridge, UK (with Eric A. Barnard).  He obtained postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass, USA (with Robert A. Weinberg).  He is an elected Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry.