Mark Feitelson

Biography:

Mark Feitelson received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology in 1979 from the UCLA School of Medicine. He was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral 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, Dr. Feitelson became Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and head of the Molecular Diagnostics Lab in Microbiology at Thomas Jefferson University. In 2007, Dr. Feitelson moved to Temple University, where he is now Professor of Biology.  His research has been supported by NIH, industry, and foundations for more than 35 years, has more than 150 publications and is presently head of the Professional Science Master’s program in Biotechnology at Temple University. Since 1980, his research interests have encompassed the pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis B infection and development of hepatocellular carcinoma on the cell and molecular levels.  More recently, he co-founded the biotechnology start-up, SFA Therapeutics, which is developing anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor drugs from the gut microbiome.