Arthur Weiss, MD, PhD

Professor, Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Associate Director, The Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Co-Director, Institute for Molecular Medicine, UCSF
Ephraim P. Engleman Distinguished Professorship, UCSF

aweiss@medicine.ucsf.edu

Phone: (415) 476-8983 (voice)
Box 0795, UCSF
San Francisco, CA 94143-0795

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Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Ph.D., 1978, Immunology
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, M.D., 1979, Medicine

Professional Experience

• 1979-1980
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 1980-1982
  Resident, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
• 1982-1984
  Fellow in Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology, UCSF
• 1982-1985
  Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF
• 1984-1985
  Instructor, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology, UCSF
• 1985-1989
  Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF
• 1985-1989
  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
• 1987-2011
  Chief, Division of Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, UCSF
• 1989-1993
  Associate Professor or Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
• 1989-1994
  Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF
• 1991-present
  Ephraim P. Engleman Distinguished Professor of Rheumatology, UCSF
• 1992-present
  Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
• 1993-present
  Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF
• 1998-2005
  Associate Director, The Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis, UCSF
• 2002-2006
  Director, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), UCSF
• 2007-2010
  Co-Director, Institute for Molecular Medicine, UCSF

Honors & Awards

• 1997
  Lee C. Howley Prize, Arthritis Foundation
• 1998
  Forty-First Faculty Research Lecturer, UCSF
• 2001
  American Association of Immunologist-Huang Foundation Meritorious Career Award
• 2003
  Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2004
  Member, National Academy of Sciences
• 2004
  Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
• 2004
  Member, Institute of Medicine
• 2004
  Distinguished Investigator Award, American College of Rheumatology
• 2012
  Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Immunology
• 2012
  UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award

Selected Publications

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