Dr. Michor is a Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and in the Department of Stem Cells and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. Dr. Michor obtained her undergraduate training in mathematics and molecular biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, and her PhD from the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Afterwards, she was awarded a fellowship from the Harvard Society of Fellows. From 2007 until 2010, she was an Assistant Professor in the Computational Biology Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Michor is the director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Physical Sciences-Oncology Center and the Center for Cancer Evolution. She has been the recipient of the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Alice Hamilton Award , the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, the 36th Annual AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research, and others. Dr. Michor's laboratory investigates the evolutionary dynamics of cancer initiation, progression, response to therapy, and emergence of resistance.
Walentynowicz KA, Engelhardt D, Cristea S, Yadav S, Onubogu U, Salatino R, Maerken M, Vincentelli C, Jhaveri A, Geisberg J, McDonald TO, Michor F, Janiszewska M.
Cell Rep. 2023 Mar 13. 42(3):112235. PMID: 36920905
Elkrief A, Makhnin A, Moses KA, Ahn LS, Preeshagul IR, Iqbal AN, Hayes SA, Plodkowski AJ, Paik PK, Ladanyi M, Kris MG, Riely GJ, Michor F, Yu HA.
Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Feb 02. PMID: 36729110
Landshammer A, Bolondi A, Kretzmer H, Much C, Buschow R, Rose A, Wu HJ, Mackowiak SD, Braendl B, Giesselmann P, Tornisiello R, Parsi KM, Huey J, Mielke T, Meierhofer D, Maehr R, Hnisz D, Michor F, Rinn JL, Meissner A.
Elife. 2023 01 31. 12. PMID: 36719724
Penter L, Liu Y, Wolff JO, Yang L, Taing L, Jhaveri A, Southard J, Patel M, Cullen N, Pfaff KL, Cieri N, Oliveira G, Kim-Schulze S, Ranasinghe S, Leonard R, Robertson T, Morgan EA, Chen H, Song MH, Thurin M, Li S, Rodig SJ, Cibulskis C, Gabriel S, Bachireddy P, Ritz J, Streicher H, Neuberg D, Hodi FS, Gnjatic S, Davids MS, Livak KJ, Altreuter J, Michor F, Soiffer RJ, Garcia JS, Wu CJ.
Blood. 2023 Jan 27. PMID: 36706355
Stevens LE, Peluffo G, Qiu X, Temko D, Fassl A, Li Z, Trinh A, Seehawer M, Jovanovic B, Aleckovic M, Wilde CM, Geck RC, Shu S, Kingston NL, Harper NW, Almendro V, Pyke AL, Egri SB, Papanastasiou M, Clement K, Zhou N, Walker S, Salas J, Park SY, Frank DA, Meissner A, Jaffe JD, Sicinski P, Toker A, Michor F, Long HW, Overmoyer BA, Polyak K.
Cancer Res. 2023 01 18. 83(2):264-284. PMID: 36409824
Aleckovic M, Cristea S, Gil Del Alcazar CR, Yan P, Ding L, Krop ED, Harper NW, Rojas Jimenez E, Lu D, Gulvady AC, Foidart P, Seehawer M, Diciaccio B, Murphy KC, Pyrdol J, Anand J, Garza K, Wucherpfennig KW, Tamimi RM, Michor F, Polyak K.
Nat Commun. 2022 12 07. 13(1):7558. PMID: 36476730
Dean JA, Tanguturi SK, Cagney D, Shin KY, Youssef G, Aizer A, Rahman R, Hammoudeh L, Reardon D, Lee E, Dietrich J, Tamura K, Aoyagi M, Wickersham L, Wen PY, Catalano P, Haas-Kogan D, Alexander BM, Michor F.
Neuro Oncol. 2022 Nov 19. PMID: 36402744
Van Egeren D, Kohli K, Warner JL, Bedard PL, Riely G, Lepisto E, Schrag D, LeNoue-Newton M, Catalano P, Kehl KL, Michor F.
Sci Rep. 2022 11 09. 12(1):19055. PMID: 36351964
Poels KE, Schoenfeld AJ, Makhnin A, Tobi Y, Wang Y, Frisco-Cabanos H, Chakrabarti S, Shi M, Napoli C, McDonald TO, Tan W, Hata A, Weinrich SL, Yu HA, Michor F.
Nat Commun. 2022 Sep 23. 13(1):5579. PMID: 36151107
Mercier FE, Shi J, Sykes DB, Oki T, Jankovic M, Man CH, Kfoury YS, Miller E, He S, Zhu A, Vasic R, Doench J, Orthwein A, Michor F, Scadden DT.
Blood Adv. 2022 09 13. 6(17):5072-5084. PMID: 35793392
Franziska Michor, associate professor of computational biology, has won a 2015 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. Michor was chosen for her research that fuses evolutionary biology, mathematics, and clinical research toward a better understanding of…
May 11, 2012 Franziska Michor, associate professor of computational biology, received Harvard School of Public Health’s second annual Alice Hamilton Award on April 11, 2012 in recognition of her pathbreaking work applying evolutionary theory to cancer. The award,…
