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Michael Teitell, Lab P.I.
Michael Teitell received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the UCLA College Honors Program as a Departmental Scholar in Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1985. He earned combined M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in the UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program in 1993. His graduate and early post-doctoral studies were with Dr. Mitchell Kronenberg at UCLA in Molecular and Cellular Immunology. Dr. Teitell was a Resident and Clinical Instructor in Anatomic Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 1993-1995. During this time he was a Research Associate with Dr. Richard Blumberg. From 1995-1997, Dr. Teitell was a Resident in Clinical Pathology at UCSF and a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Joe Gray. From 1997-1999, he held a joint appointment at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles as a Pediatric Pathology Fellow and at UCLA as a Clinical Instructor in Pathology. He became an Assistant Professor in the UCLA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in 1999. He was jointly appointed in the UCLA Department of Pediatrics in 2001 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004. He currently serves as Chief of the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, with board certification in anatomic, clinical and pediatric pathology. Dr. Teitell has received several important honors and awards. Among these are the David Paul Kane Scholar Award of the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation (2000-2001), the Lymphoma Research Foundation Junior Faculty Award (2001-2002), the FOCIS/Millenium Pharmaceuticals Young Investigator Award in Genomics Research (2001-2002), a Scholar Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (2003-2008), election to the American Society of Clinical Investigators (2004) and a Margaret E. Early Medical Research Trust Award (2005). |
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Education and Training |
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1981-1985 1985-1993 |
UCLA. B.S., M.S. - Chemistry and Biochemistry UCLA. M.D., Ph.D. - Molecular Immunology and Medicine |
Research, Professional Experience and Professional Positions |
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1991-1993 1993-1995 1994-1995 1995-1997 1997-1999 1999-2004 2004-Present |
Post-doctoral Fellow, Microbiology and Immunology, UCLA Clinical Instructor and Resident, Anatomic Pathology, Harvard Medical School Research Associate, Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Resident, Clinical Pathology, UCSF Fellow, Pediatric Pathology, Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles Assistant Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, UCLA Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, UCLA |
Professional Activities
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1995-Present |
American Association of Immunologists, Abul Abbas (sponsor) Member of the Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA Member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA American Society for Biochem and Molec Biology, Joan Conaway (sponsor) Medical Scientist Training Program, Executive Committee, UCLA American Association for Cancer Research, Richard Gatti (sponsor) NIH, Cancer Genetics Study Section Member Member, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Member, UCLA Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine (ISCBM) Member, Epigenetics Society American Society for Microbiology Section Editor, Laboratory Investigation Editorial Board, Nanomedicine Consulting Editor, Editorial Board, Pediatric Research Member, Biophysical Society, Robert Callender (sponsor) |
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Honors and Awards |
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1981-1985 1984-1985 1985 1997-1999 1999 2000 2001 2003-2008 2004 2004 2005 |
University College Honors Program, UCLA Departmental Scholar in Biochemistry, UCLA Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Chapter Lymphoma Research Foundation of America Fellow David Paul Kane Scholar, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Foundation Lymphoma Research Foundation of America Junior Faculty Award FOCIS/Millenium Pharmaceuticals Award for Genomics Research Scholar Award, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Elected to American Society of Clinical Investigators (ASCI) Elliot Osserman Award (for service in support of cancer research), ICRF Margaret E. Early Medical Research Trust Award |