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Overview

Franziska Michor is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has made significant contributions to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans a range of specialized subfields including molecular biology, oncology, cancer research, genetics, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics such as cancer genomics and diagnostics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, glioma diagnosis and treatment, lung cancer treatments and mutations, acute myeloid leukemia research, and cancer cells and metastasis.

Michor has published extensively, with frequent appearances in prestigious venues. Their most common publication outlets include:

  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Blood

Notable recent papers include the following:

  • "Breast tumours maintain a reservoir of subclonal diversity during expansion," 2021, Nature
  • "Genomic epidemiology of superspreading events in Austria reveals mutational dynamics and transmission properties of SARS-CoV-2," 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Ascl2-Dependent Cell Dedifferentiation Drives Regeneration of Ablated Intestinal Stem Cells," 2020, Cell stem cell
  • "Impact of HER2 Heterogeneity on Treatment Response of Early-Stage HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: Phase II Neoadjuvant Clinical Trial of T-DM1 Combined with Pertuzumab," 2021, Cancer Discovery
  • "Reconstructing the Lineage Histories and Differentiation Trajectories of Individual Cancer Cells in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms," 2021, Cell stem cell

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including Thomas O. McDonald, Simona Cristea, Christopher Graser, Kornélia Polyák, and Aashna Jhaveri.

Michor's scholarly output includes over a hundred publications in medicine and related molecular sciences, contributing to deeper understanding in cancer biology and treatment strategies. Their work incorporates advanced methodologies in genomics and single-cell analysis, addressing complex issues in tumor heterogeneity, disease progression, and therapeutic response.

Best Publications

  • Clonal evolution in breast cancer revealed by single nucleus genome sequencing

    Yong Wang;Jill Waters;Marco L. Leung;Anna Unruh

  • Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukaemia.

    Franziska Michor;Timothy P. Hughes;Yoh Iwasa;Susan Branford

  • The mathematics of cancer: integrating quantitative models

    Philipp M. Altrock;Lin L. Liu;Franziska Michor

  • Non-cell-autonomous driving of tumour growth supports sub-clonal heterogeneity

    Andriy Marusyk;Andriy Marusyk;Doris P. Tabassum;Philipp M. Altrock;Vanessa Almendro;Vanessa Almendro

  • Optimization of Dosing for EGFR-Mutant Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer with Evolutionary Cancer Modeling

    Juliann Chmielecki;Jasmine Y Foo;Geoffrey R. Oxnard;Katherine Hutchinson

  • Dynamics of cancer progression

    Franziska Michor;Yoh Iwasa;Martin A. Nowak

  • Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor–Resistant Disease

    Kadoaki Ohashi;Yosef E. Maruvka;Franziska Michor;William Pao

  • Studying clonal dynamics in response to cancer therapy using high-complexity barcoding

    Hyo-eun C Bhang;David A Ruddy;Viveksagar Krishnamurthy Radhakrishna;Justina X Caushi

  • Polyploidy can drive rapid adaptation in yeast

    Anna M. Selmecki;Yosef E. Maruvka;Phillip A. Richmond;Marie Guillet;Marie Guillet

  • Punctuated copy number evolution and clonal stasis in triple-negative breast cancer

    Ruli Gao;Alexander Davis;Thomas O. McDonald;Emi Sei

  • Computational Modeling of Pancreatic Cancer Reveals Kinetics of Metastasis Suggesting Optimum Treatment Strategies

    Hiroshi Haeno;Mithat Gonen;Meghan B. Davis;Joseph M. Herman

  • A novel tumour-suppressor function for the Notch pathway in myeloid leukaemia

    Apostolos Klinakis;Camille Lobry;Omar Abdel-Wahab;Philmo Oh

  • Clonal Hematopoiesis Associated With Adverse Outcomes After Autologous Stem-Cell Transplantation for Lymphoma

    Christopher J Gibson;R Coleman Lindsley;Vatche Tchekmedyian;Brenton G Mar

  • Most Human Non-GCIMP Glioblastoma Subtypes Evolve from a Common Proneural-like Precursor Glioma

    Tatsuya Ozawa;Markus Riester;Yu Kang Cheng;Jason T. Huse

  • Cellular and genetic diversity in the progression of in situ human breast carcinomas to an invasive phenotype

    So Yeon Park;Mithat Gönen;Hee Jung Kim;Franziska Michor

  • Synergy and Discounting of Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

    Christoph Hauert;Franziska Michor;Martin A. Nowak;Michael Doebeli

  • Unravelling subclonal heterogeneity and aggressive disease states in TNBC through single-cell RNA-seq

    Mihriban Karaayvaz;Simona Cristea;Shawn M. Gillespie;Anoop P. Patel

  • Inference of tumor evolution during chemotherapy by computational modeling and in situ analysis of genetic and phenotypic cellular diversity.

    Vanessa Almendro;Yu Kang Cheng;Amanda Randles;Amanda Randles;Shalev Itzkovitz;Shalev Itzkovitz

  • Successful Therapy Must Eradicate Cancer Stem Cells

    David Dingli;David Dingli;Franziska Michor

  • Determinants of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Escape from the Primary CD8+ Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Response

    Nicola A. Jones;Xiping Wei;Darren R. Flower;MaiLee Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoh Iwasa
Yoh Iwasa Kwansei Gakuin University
Kornelia Polyak
Kornelia Polyak Harvard University
Martin A. Nowak
Martin A. Nowak Harvard University
Lin Liu
Lin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mithat Gonen
Mithat Gonen Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Eric C. Holland
Eric C. Holland Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ross L. Levine
Ross L. Levine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Irene M. Ghobrial
Irene M. Ghobrial Harvard University
William Pao
William Pao Roche (United States)
David T. Scadden
David T. Scadden Harvard University

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