Katerina Politi 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 an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and the Yale Cancer Center.

Dr. Yu is an Associate Attending at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, USA. She treats patients with lung cancer and oversees the EGFR-mutant lung cancer research program at MSKCC.