Franziska Michor

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 in 1982. Her father, , is a mathematician and a retired professor at the University of Vienna, and her mother was a nurse. 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. 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. Specifically, Michor sought to understand why certain patients failed to improve after treatment with Gleevec. Michor was the first researcher to be honoured with the Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASciNA) award. 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 Group.

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.

Awards and honors 2004 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award 2005 Elected Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows 2007 Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize of the Society for the Study of Evolution 2008 Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASciNA) Award 2010 Gerstner Young Investigator Award 2012 Alice Hamilton Award 2012 Speaker at TEDMED 2015 NYSCF - Robertson Stem Cell Prize 2016 The 36th Annual AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research

Selected publications