Exscientia plc announced the appointment of Professor Franziska Michor, Ph.D. to its Board of Directors. Prof. Michor is a professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Data Science 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 Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. The Board now comprises seven directors.

Prof. Michor has over 20 years of experience in cancer research and has authored more than 180 publications. Her work currently focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of cancer initiation, progression, response to therapy and emergence of resistance. She serves as a scientific advisor for Zephyr AI, a seed-stage AI-enabled precision medicine start-up.

She also co-founded and serves as a scientific advisor for Harbinger Health, an early cancer detection company. Prof. Michor holds a Ph.D. from the Harvard Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. She is originally from Vienna, Austria and resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.