Dr. Michael Teitell - Faculty Athletics Representative - Staff Directory

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Dr. Michael Teitell

Title:
Faculty Athletics Representative
Alma Mater:
UCLA, '85

Michael A. Teitell is in his eighth year as UCLA’s Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR), which followed six years of service on the Academic Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. Teitell, a specialist in stem cells, cancer, and biotechnology, is Director of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCLA Health JCCC), holds the Lya and Harrison Latta Endowed Chair in Pathology and is a Professor and Chief of the Division of Pediatric and Neonatal Pathology in the David Geffen School of Medicine.

A 1985 graduate of UCLA with a B.S. and M.S. in biochemistry, Teitell earned a M.D., Ph.D. specializing in immunology from the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) in 1993. He performed clinical residencies in pathology and post-doctoral research training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women's Hospital and at UCSF before returning to the southland for a fellowship in pediatric pathology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He joined the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine in 1999 as an assistant professor, served as associate professor from 2004, and was promoted to professor in the Departments of Pathology, Pediatrics, and Bioengineering in 2008.

Over the past 23 years, Teitell has supervised the doctoral dissertations of many graduate students who are now becoming tenured faculty members at UCLA and other leading academic institutions in the US and abroad. Teitell is the founding director of the Cancer Nanotechnology Program in the UCLA Health JCCC, director of the UCLA Tumor Immunology Training Program, and was an associate director of the UCLA-Caltech MSTP. He is Phi Beta Kappa, UCLA Eta Chapter, a Scholar and Stohlman Scholar of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigators in 2004 and the Association of American Physicians in 2017. In 2016, Teitell received the National Football Foundation / Fidelity Investments FAR Award.

He has authored over 210 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 12 book chapters, with a special emphasis on immunology, cancer, metabolism, stem cells, and biotechnology. He is on multiple academic and philanthropic scientific advisory boards and funding agency review panels. Teitell’s research has led to 17 issued patents and numerous patent applications for improved cell engineering and disease characterization through the creation of new instrumentation. His inventions are being commercialized through several startup companies. He is an avid runner, softball player, and was a little league umpire.

Teitell’s wife, Cindy Malone, is a professor in the Department of Biology at the California State University, Northridge. They have two children, Benjamin Patrick Teitell and Liliana Elizabeth Teitell.