Franziska Michor Explained

Franziska Michor
Workplaces:Harvard University
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cornell University
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
Alma Mater:Harvard University
University of Vienna
University of Trieste
Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis Title:Evolutionary dynamics of cancer
Thesis Url:http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122305322
Thesis Year:2005
Website:Michor Lab

Franziska Michor (born 1982) is an Austrian computational biologist. She is a professor in the department of data science at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. She serves as Director of the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center and the Center for Cancer Evolution.

Education and early career

Michor was born in Vienna.[1] Her father was a mathematician and her mother was a nurse. As a child she became interested in mathematics, and was inspired to follow a scientific career that helped others. Michor was an undergraduate student in mathematics and molecular biology at the University of Vienna. She spent a year at the University of Trieste, where she studied medical biotechnology. She moved to the Institute for Advanced Study as a graduate student, where she worked in theoretical biology. Michor was a doctoral researcher in Harvard University, where she was based in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.[2] Her thesis considered the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. She identified the time required for the genes within cancer cells to mutate and become protective against cancer.

Research and career

Michor completed her doctoral research in less than three years, after which she was made a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.[3] Her early work considered the development of a mathematical model to study the evolution of cells that lead to the end stage of chronic myelogenous leukemia.[4] Specifically, Michor sought to understand why certain patients failed to improve after treatment with Gleevec.[5] Michor was the first researcher to be honoured with the Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASciNA) award.

In 2007, Michor was appointed to the faculty at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and as assistant professor at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Her laboratory consider the evolutionary dynamics of cancer, including its initiation, progression, response to therapy, and emergence of resistance.[6] She moved to the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in 2010, where she was promoted to Professor in 2015.

Michor is on the steering committee of the American Association for Cancer Research Cancer Evolution Working.[7]

Personal life

Michor is married to Roland G. Fryer Jr., a professor of economics who, at age 30, became the youngest African-American to be given tenure at Harvard University.[8]

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Franziska Michor. 2021-09-02. Vilcek Foundation. en-US.
  2. Web site: February 2014. 2021-09-02. Women, Girls, & the Media. 25 February 2014 . en.
  3. Web site: 2015-07-02. Does cancer follow the rules of math? This scientist certainly thinks so — and she's onto something.. 2021-09-02. Upworthy. en.
  4. Web site: ASCINA: ASciNA Award 2008 . 2021-09-02 . ascina.at.
  5. Web site: Junod. Tom. 2007-11-20. Franziska Michor Is the Isaac Newton of Biology. 2021-09-02. Esquire. en-US.
  6. Web site: research. 2021-09-02. michorlab.dfci.harvard.edu.
  7. Web site: AACR Establishes New Cancer Evolution Working Group AACR News Releases. 2021-09-02. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). en.
  8. https://www.ft.com/content/89b97964-b88a-11e5-b151-8e15c9a029fb "Lunch with the FT: Roland Fryer"
  9. Web site: Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. 2021-09-02. Fred Hutch. en.
  10. Web site: Listed by Field. 2021-09-02. socfell.fas.harvard.edu. en.
  11. Web site: Society for the Study of Evolution. 2021-09-02. www.evolutionsociety.org. en.
  12. Web site: Homepage. 2021-09-02. Leon Levy Foundation. en-US.
  13. Web site: Franziska Michor. 2021-09-02. TEDMED.
  14. Web site: 2021-06-25. Alice Hamilton Awards for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH CDC. 2021-09-02. www.cdc.gov. en-us.
  15. Web site: franziska michor vienna - Google Search. 2021-09-02. www.google.com.
  16. Web site: York. Carnegie Corporation of New. Franziska Michor. 2021-09-02. Carnegie Corporation of New York. en.
  17. Web site: Franziska Michor receives NYSCF -- Robertson Stem Cell Prize. 2021-09-02. EurekAlert!. en.