Mark A Feitelson
Temple University, USA
Biography
Mark A Feitelson received his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology in 1979 from the UCLA School of Medicine. He was an American Cancer Society Post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University from 1980-82, and was then recruited to the Fox Chase Cancer Center by Dr. Baruch Blumberg (Nobel laureate). In 1991, he became Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Head of the Molecular Diagnostics Lab in Microbiology at Thomas Jefferson University. In 2007, he moved to Temple University, where he is now Professor of Biology. His research on hepatitis B and liver cancer has been supported by NIH for more than 25 years, has more than 130 publications, and is presently Head of the Professional Science Master’s program in Biotechnology at Temple University.