Franziska Michor
Primary Faculty

Franziska Michor

Professor of Computational Biology

Biostatistics


Overview

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.


Bibliography

Mechanisms of response and resistance to combined decitabine and ipilimumab for advanced myeloid disease.

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


News

Franziska Michor wins 2015 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

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…

Franziska Michor honored at second annual Alice Hamilton lecture

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,…