Agata Smogorzewska

Agata Smogorzewska is a Polish-born scientist. She is an associate professor at Rockefeller University, heading the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance. Her work primarily focuses on DNA interstrand crosslink repair and the diseases resulting from deficiencies in this repair pathway, including Fanconi anemia and karyomegalic interstitial nephritis.

Early life and education After finishing high school in Poland, Smogorzewska completed her Bachelor of Science in molecular biology and biochemistry in 1995 at the University of Southern California. the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Society of Human Genetics

Awards

Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award Burroughs Wellcome Fund Award – 2008 Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Research Award – 2010 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar – 2010 Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award – 2011 Pershing Square Sohn Prize – 2014 The Rockefeller University Distinguished Teaching Award – 2014 David B. Frohnmayer Early Investigator Award – 2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar – 2016 Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Early-Career Innovation Award – 2017

Selected publications Regulation of telomerase by telomeric proteins – Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2004

Control of human telomere length by TRF1 and TRF2 – Molecular and Cellular Biology 2000

Identification of the FANCI protein, a monoubiquitinated FANCD2 paralog required for DNA repair – Cell, 2007

Different telomere damage signaling pathways in human and mouse cells – The EMBO Journal, 2002

Fanconi anaemia and the repair of Watson and Crick DNA crosslinks – Nature, 2013

DNA ligase IV-dependent NHEJ of deprotected mammalian telomeres in G1 and G2 – Current Biology, 2002

A genetic screen identifies FAN1, a Fanconi anemia-associated nuclease necessary for DNA interstrand crosslink repair – Molecular Cell 2010