Marlena Fejzo

Marlena Schoenberg Fejzo, Ph.D., (born February 20, 1968) is an American medical scientist and professor of research on Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG)Hyperemesis gravidarum and ovarian cancer. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995 and currently has joint appointments in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the department of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published peer-reviewed scientific articles on many diseases of women including ovarian cancer, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, and discovered the first gene for uterine fibroids. She provided scientific evidence for a genetic component to Hyperemesis Gravidarum, is a science advisor for the Hyperemesis Education and Research Foundation, and is involved in the first study to identify predisposing genes for HG.hyperemesis.org

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: Marko, Mila, and Kala.