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Arthur Weiss (scientist)

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

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]

References

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  1. ^ "Arthur Weiss". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  2. ^ a b "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. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11618517A. doi:10.1073/pnas.1904271116. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 6744919. PMID 31455730.