Franziska Michor, PhD
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Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Franziska Michor studied molecular biology and mathematics at the University of Vienna, Austria, and medical biotechnology at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy. She received her PhD from Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in 2005. Afterwards, she was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and worked at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. From 2007 to 2010, she was assistant professor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In 2010, she moved to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health. Her lab investigates the evolutionary dynamics of cancer.
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
| Name |
Franziska Michor |
| Nationality |
Austrian |
| Address |
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLS Building
3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115 |
| Email address |
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Education
| 2000 - 2002 |
Undergraduate studies at the University of Vienna
(molecular biology and mathematics) |
| 2002 |
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy (medical biotechnology) |
| 2002 |
First Diploma (Bachelor of Science) from the University of Vienna |
| 2002 - 2003 |
Institute for Advanced Study, Program in Theoretical Biology |
| 2003 - 2005 |
Graduate studies at Harvard University in the Department of
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| 2005 |
PhD from Harvard University
(Thesis: Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer ) |
Scientific Career
| 2005 - 2007 |
Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows |
| 2007 - 2010 |
Assistant Professor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| 2008 - 2010 |
Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences |
| 2010 - |
Associate Professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health |
Awards and Fellowships
| 2000 |
Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society for the paper
The Mathematics of Planetary Movement |
| 2004 |
Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award of the
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington |
| 2005 - 2008 |
Junior Fellowship of the Harvard Society of Fellows |
| 2007 |
Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize of the Society for the Study of Evolution |
| 2008 |
ASCINA Award (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) |
| 2009 |
Leon Levy Foundation Young Investigator Award |
| 2010 |
Gerstner Young Investigator Award |
| 2012 |
Alice Hamilton Award |
Funding History
| 2006 - 2007 |
Milton Fund Grant, Harvard University
PI Franziska Michor ($30,000) |
| 2008 |
Special Projects Committee, Society of MSKCC
PI Franziska Michor ($150,000) |
| 2008 - 2013 |
NIH R01CA138234: Dynamics of Tumor Stem Cells in Cancer Initiation, Therapy, and Resistance
PI Franziska Michor, Co-PI Ross Levine ($2,620,000) |
| 2009 - 2010 |
Leon Levy Foundation Young Investigator Award
PI Franziska Michor ($66,000) |
| 2009 - 2014 |
NIH U54CA143798: Evolutionary Dynamics of Brain, Lung, and Hematopoietic Tumors
PI Franziska Michor, Senior Co-Investigator Eric Holland ($11,000,000) |
| 2010 |
Gerstner Young Investigator Award
PI Franziska Michor ($225,000) |
Teaching Experience and Organization of Seminars
| 2003 - 2006 |
Organization of Seminar Series ATHENS (Applications of Theoretical Evolution to the Natural Sciences) at Harvard University |
| 2004 |
Teaching Fellow of Mathematics 153 at Harvard University |
| 2005 |
Teaching Fellow of Mathematics 234 at Harvard University |
| 2008 |
Cell Physiology at Cornell Weill Medical School |
| 2008 - 2009 |
Cancer Stem Cell course at New York University School of Medicine (guest lecturer) |
| 2009 |
Quantitative Biology at Cornell Weill Medical School |
| 2010 |
Evolutionary Systems Biology of Cancer, MSKCC/Cornell Weill Medical School (course director) |
2011 -
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Mathematical Modeling of Cancer, Harvard School of Public Health (instructor) |
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