Franziska Michor, PhD
Assistant Member, Computational Biology Program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Assistant Professor, Program in Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
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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. In 2007, she joined the research faculty at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Her lab investigates the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. |
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
| Name | Franziska Michor |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Address | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Zuckerman Research Center 1127 417 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021 |
| Email address | michorf@mskcc.org |
| Homepage | http://cbio.mskcc.org/~michor |
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 - | Junior Faculty at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| 2008 - | Junior Faculty at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences |
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) |
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) |
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 |