Franziska Michor was born on 1982 and is an Austrian computational biologist.
13 Facts About Franziska Michor
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Franziska Michor serves as Director of the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center and the Center for Cancer Evolution.
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Franziska Michor's father was a mathematician and her mother was a nurse.
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Franziska Michor spent a year at the University of Trieste, where she studied medical biotechnology.
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Franziska Michor moved to the Institute for Advanced Study as a graduate student, where she worked in theoretical biology.
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Franziska Michor was a doctoral researcher in Harvard University, where she was based in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
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Franziska Michor identified the time required for the genes within cancer cells to mutate and become protective against cancer.
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Franziska Michor completed her doctoral research in less than three years, after which she was made a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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Specifically, Franziska Michor sought to understand why certain patients failed to improve after treatment with Gleevec.
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Franziska Michor was the first researcher to be honoured with the Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America award.
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In 2007, Franziska 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.
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Franziska Michor's laboratory consider the evolutionary dynamics of cancer, including its initiation, progression, response to therapy, and emergence of resistance.
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Franziska Michor is on the steering committee of the American Association for Cancer Research Cancer Evolution Working.