Dr. Michael Alan Teitell, MD

Michael A. Teitell is an immunologist and cancer biologist who has been on the UCLA School of Medicine faculty since joining the Departments of Pathology/Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics in 1999. He has been Chief of the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Pathology since 2001 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics in 2004. Dr. Teitell earned B.S. and M.S. combined degrees as a Departmental Scholar in Biochemistry from UCLA in 1985, and earned combined M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program in 1993. His Ph.D. studies were in molecular and cellular immunology. He performed residencies in Anatomic Pathology at Harvard/Brigham and Women's Hospital and Clinical Pathology at UCSF and a fellowship in Pediatric Pathology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He is board-certified in each of these pathology specialties. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, Harvard/BWH and UCSF before returning to UCLA as a Clinical Instructor …in Pathology in 1999. Dr. Teitell is co-Director of the UCLA T32 Tumor Immunology Training Grant and serves on the MSTP Executive and Admissions Committees and the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Library. His awards include a FOCIS/Millenium Pharmaceuticals Award for Genomics Research, two awards from the Lymphoma Research Foundation, an award from the Margaret Early Medical Research Trust and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar Award. He was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigators (ASCI) in 2004. His laboratory research centers on signal transduction and epigenetics of immune system development and cancer, as well as developing new approaches to problems in cancer biology using nanoscale methods. His group created the first genetic animal model for germinal center based B cell lymphomas that accurately resemble the majority of lymphocyte cancers afflicting humans.