Marlena Schoenberg Fejzo (born February 20, 1968) is an American medical scientist and professor of research on hyperemesis gravidarum and ovarian cancer.[1]

She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in Applied Math in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University in 1995. Currently she has joint appointments in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California and the department of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she works in the laboratory of Dennis J. Slamon.[1]

She has published peer-reviewed scientific articles on many diseases of women including ovarian cancer, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, and discovered the first genes for uterine fibroids, nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, and hyperemesis gravidarum.[2]

She is a science advisor for the Hyperemesis Education and Research Foundation.

Personal life

Fejzo is the granddaughter of the Austrian composers Arnold Schoenberg and Eric Zeisl, and the sister of the attorney E. Randol Schoenberg. Fejzo has three children.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Faculty Database Production Server | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA". people.healthsciences.ucla.edu. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  2. ↑ Callahan, Alice (2023-03-14). "Her Doctor Said Her Illness Was All in Her Head. This Scientist Was Determined to Find the Truth". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-22.


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