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Michael Kobor

ResearcherMedical GeneticsUniversity of British Columbia

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Michael Kobor

Researcher

Medical Genetics

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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11 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 16 research grants (14 CIHR, 2 NSERC), most recently in 2023.
Supervised 9 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Research

Epigenetics Dna Methylation Child Development Crc Asthma Environment Microbiome Array Technology

Latest papers

Aging Out of the Blue: Region-Specific Epigenetic Clock Calibration for a Blue Zone with the DNAm SuperLearner.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
Cross-Platform Methylation-Based Site of Origin Classification for Squamous Cell Carcinomas.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2025
The Intersection of Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors in Aging: Insights from a Narrative Review.
International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025

All 18 publications

Latest funding

MAPping Lung DiseasE Through Social Epigenetics, Exposures, and Disparities (MAPLE-SEED) Study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,090,124
Unequal Ageing Trajectories Across the Life Course: Environmental Pathways, Protective Factors, and Actionable Levers
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$719,100
Explaining life-course socio-economic inequalities in ageing trajectories
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 45 grants and awards

18 publications.

Aging Out of the Blue: Region-Specific Epigenetic Clock Calibration for a Blue Zone with the DNAm SuperLearner.

Gunter N, Cardenas A, Kobor M, Gladish N, MacIsaac JL, Dever K, Rehkopf D, Dow W, Rosero-Bixby L, Hubbard A

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.02.26346901 PMID: 41929330

Cross-Platform Methylation-Based Site of Origin Classification for Squamous Cell Carcinomas.

Zhang AW, Akbari V, Galbraith A, Kore Z, Li Y, Leung S, Ji JX, Dever K, MacIsaac J, Brewis H, Pan D, Kürten C, Ajisebutu A, Contreras-Sanz A, Moeen A, Zuccato JA, Patil V, Black PC, Lam W, Pleasance E, O'Neill K, Jones S, Marra M, Laskin J, Zadeh G, Mansouri S, Kobor M, Prisman E, McGuire A, Huntsman DG, Yip S, Naso JR

Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.modpat.2025.100878 PMID: 40902853

The Intersection of Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors in Aging: Insights from a Narrative Review.

Vereecke S, Bennett K, Schrempft S, Kobor M, Brauer M, Stringhini S

International journal of environmental research and public health2025

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph22081241 PMID: 40869827

Associations between maternal plasma concentrations of corticotrophin releasing hormone and the placental transcriptome.

Paquette A, Parenti M, Lapehn S, Konwar C, Kadam L, Firsick EJ, Barrett ES, MacIsaac J, MacDonald J, Bammler T, Carroll K, Enquobahrie D, Kobor M, LeWinn KZ, Nguyen R, Smith R, Spirzo A, Zhao Q, Myatt L, Bush NR, Muglia L, Sathyanarayana S

Placenta2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2024.12.021 PMID: 39755094

From fetus to 8: the CHILD Cohort Study

Miliku K, Reyna ME, Medeleanu M, Dai R, Dubeau A, Lefebvre DL, Wright K, Dawod B, Beck M, Brooks E

American Journal of Epidemiology202515 citations

DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwae397

Foundations and Strategic Vision of the Canadian Translational Geroscience Network

Hajj-Boutros G, Faust A, Muscedere J, Kim P, Gouspillou G, Harrington L, Kirkland JL, Kuchel GA, Van Raamsdonk J, Rylett RJ

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences2025

DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glaf111

To what extent do social support and coping strategies mediate the relation between childhood maltreatment and major depressive disorder: A longitudinal community-based cohort.

Li M, O'Donnell KJ, Caron J, Meaney MJ, Kobor M, D'Arcy C, Su Y, Liu A, Meng X

Development and psychopathology2024

DOI: 10.1017/s0954579422000918 PMID: 36102218

Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation.

Rajasekar P, Hall RJ, Binaya KC, Mahapatra PS, Puppala SP, Thakker D, MacIsaac JL, Lin D, Kobor M, Bolton CE, Sayers I, Hall IP, Clifford RL

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122561 PMID: 37742862

DNAmFitAge: biological age indicator incorporating physical fitness.

McGreevy KM, Radak Z, Torma F, Jokai M, Lu AT, Belsky DW, Binder A, Marioni RE, Ferrucci L, Pośpiech E, Branicki W, Ossowski A, Sitek A, Spólnicka M, Raffield LM, Reiner AP, Cox S, Kobor M, Corcoran DL, Horvath S

Aging2023

DOI: 10.18632/aging.204538 PMID: 36812475

Study protocol for Attachment & Child Health (ATTACHTM) program: promoting vulnerable Children's health at scale.

Anis L, Letourneau N, Ross KM, Hart M, Graham I, Lalonde S, Varro S, Baldwin A, Soulsby A, Majnemer A, Donnelly C, Piotrowski C, Collier C, Lindeman C, Goldowitz D, Isaac D, Thomson D, Serré D, Citro E, Zimmermann G, Pliszka H, Mann J, Baumann J, Piekarski J, Dalton JA, Johnson-Green J, Wood K, Bruce M, Santana M, Mayer M, Gould M, Kobor M, Flowers M, Haywood M, Koerner M, Parker N, Muhajarine N, Fairie P, Chrishti R, Perry R, Merrill S, Pociuk S, StephanieTaylor, Cole S, Murphy T, Marchment T, Xavier V, Shajani Z, West Z

BMC pediatrics2022

DOI: 10.1186/s12887-022-03439-3 PMID: 35986306

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Michael Kobor

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Aging Out of the Blue: Region-Specific Epigenetic Clock Calibration for a Blue Zone with the DNAm SuperLearner.

Cross-Platform Methylation-Based Site of Origin Classification for Squamous Cell Carcinomas.

The Intersection of Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors in Aging: Insights from a Narrative Review.

Associations between maternal plasma concentrations of corticotrophin releasing hormone and the placental transcriptome.

From fetus to 8: the CHILD Cohort Study

Foundations and Strategic Vision of the Canadian Translational Geroscience Network

To what extent do social support and coping strategies mediate the relation between childhood maltreatment and major depressive disorder: A longitudinal community-based cohort.

Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation.

DNAmFitAge: biological age indicator incorporating physical fitness.

Study protocol for Attachment & Child Health (ATTACHTM) program: promoting vulnerable Children's health at scale.

Frequent collaborators

Nancy Mayo

Kanna Hayashi

Steven Jones

Sara Mostafavi

Mohammad Auais

Xiangfei Meng

Jean Caron

Janice Leung

Jeremy Van Raamsdonk

Eitan Prisman

Carrie Collier

Simone Lalonde

Harold Pliszka

Suzanna Varro

Paul Fairie

Qingling Duan

Jackie Mann

Nicole Catherine

John Muscedere

Kozeta Miliku

Susan Jack

Andrea Gonzalez

Alexandra Papaioannou

Padmaja Subbarao

Michael Boyle

Malcolm Sears

Harriet MacMillan

Kozeta Miliku

Wan Lam

Gelareh Zadeh

Nicole Letourneau

Carlene Donnelly

Nazeem Muhajarine

Julio Montaner

Deborah Dewey

Charlotte Waddell

Kenneth Rockwood

Annette Majnemer

Chantal Autexier

Padmaja Subbarao