Research Focus Teams

Cancer, COVID-19, Rare Disease, Aging

Research Interests

Auto-Immune Diseases, B cells, Cancer, Innate immunity

Departments

Microbiology & Immunology

Bio

Dr. Michael Gold is a professor and former department head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Science. Dr. Gold's lab investigates cytoskeletal dynamics, receptor mobility and B Cell activation. In 2007, Dr. Gold received the Canadian Society for Immunology's Cinader Award for career achievements and earned a Faculty of Science Killam Teaching Award, which recognizes outstanding undergraduate and graduate teaching. He joined UBC in 1991.

Recent Publications

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The proto-oncogenic miR-106a-363 cluster enhances adverse risk acute myeloid leukemia through mitochondrial activation

Actinin-4 controls survival signaling in B cells by limiting the lateral mobility of B-cell antigen receptors

WAVE2 Regulates Actin-Dependent Processes Induced by the B Cell Antigen Receptor and Integrins