Arthur Weiss (scientist)

Arthur Weiss is an American Immunologist who is currently an Ephraim P. Engleman Distinguished Professor of Medicine and a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2003.[1] He specializes in studying T cell development and immune responses. His research focus has recently been shifted towards studying autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.[2][3] He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, a title he has held since 1982.[2]

Arthur Weiss
Known forT cell immunity
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Francisco
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

References
  1. "Arthur Weiss". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  2. "Arthur Weiss". HHMI.org. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  3. Ashouri, Judith F.; Hsu, Lih-Yun; Yu, Steven; Rychkov, Dmitry; Chen, Yiling; Cheng, Debra A.; Sirota, Marina; Hansen, Erik; Lattanza, Lisa; Zikherman, Julie; Weiss, Arthur (2019-09-10). "Reporters of TCR signaling identify arthritogenic T cells in murine and human autoimmune arthritis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (37): 18517–18527. doi:10.1073/pnas.1904271116. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 6744919. PMID 31455730.


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